1 * God brought his people

out of Egypt, that land

with a strange language.

2 He made Judah his holy place

and ruled over Israel.

3 * When the sea looked at God,

it ran away,

and the Jordan River

flowed upstream.

4 The mountains and the hills

skipped around like goats.

5 Ask the sea why it ran away

or ask the Jordan

why it flowed upstream.

6 Ask the mountains and the hills

why they skipped like goats!

7 Earth, you will tremble,

when the Lord God of Jacob

comes near,

8 * because he turns solid rock

into flowing streams

and pools of water.