1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

2 Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominion.

Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

3 The sea saw it and fled; the Jordan turned back.

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

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

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

5 What is it, sea, that you flee? Jordan, that you turn back?

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

6 Mountains, why do you leap like rams, and hills, like lambs?

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Tremble, thou 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 stone into a spring of water.

Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.