1When Israel came forth from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

2Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.

3The sea beheld, and fled; The Jordan turned back.

4The mountains skipped like rams, And the hills like lambs.

5What aileth thee, O thou sea! that thou fleest? Thou, Jordan, that thou runnest back?

6Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams, And ye hills like lambs?

7Tremble, O earth! at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob;

8Who turned the rock into a standing lake, And the flint into a fountain of water!