1 * When the people of Israel left Egypt,

when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,

2 Judah became the Lord's holy people,

Israel became his own possession.

3 * The Red Sea looked and ran away;

the Jordan River stopped flowing.

4 The mountains skipped like goats;

the hills jumped around like lambs.

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

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

6 You mountains, why did you skip like goats?

You hills, why did you jump around like lambs?

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

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8 * who changes rocks into pools of water

and solid cliffs into flowing springs.