1 When Israel left Egypt,when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,2 Judah became his sanctuary,Israel his kingdom.3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.4 The mountains skipped like rams,the hills like lambs.5 Why do you flee, O sea?Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,like lambs, O hills?7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord—before the God of Jacob,8 who turned a rock into a pool of water,a hard rock into springs of water.