1 When Israel went out of Egypt, Jacob’s house from a barbarous people,
2 God chose Judah for himself, Israel became his kingdom.
3 The sea saw it, and fled, Jordan river ran backwards.
4 Mountains skipped like rams, hills like the young of the flock.
5 Why, sea, do you flee? Jordan, why run backwards?
6 Mountains, why skip ram-like? Why, hills, like the young of the flock?
7 Earth, tremble before the Lord, at the presence of Jacob’s God,
8 who turns rocks into pools of water, and flint into fountains of water.