The Lord governs the sea and the land for the blessing of his people.

 WHEN Israel went out of ^aEgypt^•, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

 The sea saw it, and ^afled^•: Jordan was driven back.

 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of ^awaters^•.