¹   When Israel went out from Egypt, 
          the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 
²   Judah became God’s sanctuary, 
          Israel his dominion.

³   The sea looked and fled; 
          Jordan turned back. 
⁴   The mountains skipped like rams, 
          the hills like lambs.

⁵   Why is it, O sea, that you flee? 
          O Jordan, that you turn back? 
⁶   O mountains, that you skip like rams? 
          O hills, like lambs?

⁷   Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the LORD, 
          at the presence of the God of Jacob, 
⁸   who turns the rock into a pool of water, 
          the flint into a spring of water.