1When Israel left Egypt,
when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,

2Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his kingdom.

3The sea looked and fled;
the Jordan River turned back.

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

5Why do you flee, O sea?
Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,
like lambs, O hills?

7Tremble, O earth, before the Lord –
before the God of Jacob,

8who turned a rock into a pool of water,
a hard rock into springs of water!