1 When Israel came out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, |
2 Judah became God's 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 Why was it, O sea, that you fled,
O Jordan, that you turned back, |
6 you mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you hills, like lambs? |
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob, |
8 who turned the rock into a pool,
the hard rock into springs of water. |