1 WHEN ISRAEL came forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
2 Judah became God's sanctuary (the Holy Place of His habitation), and Israel His dominion. Exod. 29:45, 46; Deut. 27:9.
3 The Red Sea looked and fled; the Jordan River was turned back. Exod. 14:21; Josh. 3:13, 16; Ps. 77:16.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
5 What ails you, O Red Sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 You mountains, that you skip like rams, and you little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters. Exod. 17:6; Num. 20:11.