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

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom.

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

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

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

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

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

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