A Psalm of Exodus

When Israel departed from Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Judah became God’s sanctuary,

and Israel His dominion.

The sea observed and fled;

the Jordan turned back;

the mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

Why was it, O sea, that you fled,

O Jordan, that you turned back,

O mountains, that you skipped like rams,

O hills, like lambs?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

who turned the rock into a pool,

the flint into a fountain of water!