When Israel went out of Egypt,
When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Judah became his sanctuary,
Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled.
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
The mountains skipped like rams,
the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
What was it, you sea, that you fled?
Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
You mountains, that you skipped like rams?
O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool of water,
who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!