Psalms

¹ When Israel departed from Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

² Judah became God’s sanctuary,

and Israel His dominion.

³ The sea observed 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 O mountains, that you skipped 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 turned the rock into a pool,

the flint into a fountain of water!