¹When Israel went forth from Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

²Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled,

Jordan turned back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

⁵What ails you, O sea, that you flee?

O Jordan, that you turn back?

⁶O mountains, that you skip like rams?

O hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord ,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turns the rock into a pool of water,

the flint into a spring of water.