When Israel departed out of Egypt, Jacob left a people speaking strange. Judah became God's sanctuary; Israel became His domain. The sea saw it and fled. Jordan turned and ran back. Mountains skipped like rams, And little hills like lambs. What troubled you, O sea, that you fled? Why did Jordan turn away? Why did mountains leap like rams, And hills like young sheep? Tremble, earth, before the Lord, Before the God of Jacob, Who turns rock into standing water And flint into a fountain.