¹ When Israel came out of Egypt— when the house of Jacob came out from a people who spoke a different language—

² Judah was God’s sanctuary; Israel was God’s territory.

³ The sea saw it happen and ran away; the Jordan River retreated!

⁴ The mountains leaped away like rams; the hills leaped away like lambs!

⁵ Sea, why did you run away? Jordan, why did you retreat?

⁶ Mountains, why did you leap away like rams? Hills, why did you leap away like lambs?

⁷ Earth: Tremble before the Lord! Tremble before the God of Jacob,

⁸ the one who turned that rock into a pool of water, that flint stone into a spring of water!