1  When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them; 2  Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom. 3  The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. 4  The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. 5  What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? 6  You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? 7  Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob; 8  Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.