¹ When Israel went forth from Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language, ² Judah became His sanctuary,
Israel, His dominion. ³ The sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams,
The hills, like lambs. ⁵ What ails you, 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, before the Lord,
Before the God of Jacob, ⁸ Who turned the rock into a pool of water,
The flint into a fountain of water.