₁When the people of Israel left Egypt,

when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,

₂Judah became the Lord's holy people,

Israel became his own possession.

₃The Red Sea looked and ran away;

the River Jordan stopped flowing.

₄The mountains skipped like goats;

the hills jumped about like lambs.

₅What happened, Sea, to make you run away?

And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?

₆You mountains, why did you skip like goats?

You hills, why did you jump about like lambs?

₇Tremble, earth, at the Lord's coming,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

₈who changes rocks into pools of water

and solid cliffs into flowing springs.