At what time Jacob's race did leave of Egypt take,
And Egypt's barbarous folk forsake:
Then, then our God, our king, elected Jacob's race
His temple there and throne to place.
The sea beheld and fled: Jordan with swift return
To twinned spring his streams did turn.
The mountains bounded so, as, fed in fruitful ground,
The fleeced rams do frisking bound.
The hillocks capreold so, as wanton by their dams
We capreol see the lusty lambs.
O sea, why didst thou fly? Jordan, with swift return
To twinned spring, what made thee turn?
Mountains, why bounded ye, as, fed in fruitful
The fleeced rams do frisking bound?
Hillocks why capreold ye, as wanton by their dams
We capreol see the lusty lambs?
Nay you, and Earth with you, quake ever at the sight
Of God Jehovah, Jacob's might,
Who in the hardest rocks makes standing waters grow
And purling springs from flints to flow.