Classic Poem

When Israel came forth out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Judah became His sanctuary,
Israel His dominion.

The sea saw it, and fled;
The Jordan turned backward.
The mountains skipped like rams,
The hills like young sheep.

What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest?
Thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?
Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams;
Ye hills, like young sheep?

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord,
At the presence of the God of Jacob;
Who turned the rock into a pool of water,
The flint into a fountain of waters.