Verse 1
When Israel out of Egypt came,
And left the proud oppressor’s land,
Conducted by the great I AM,
Safe in the hollow of his hand;
The Lord in Israel reign’d alone,
And Judah was his fav’rite throne.

Verse 2
The sea beheld his power, and fled,
Disparted by the wondrous rod,
Jordan ran backward to his head,
And Sinai felt th’ incumbent God,
The mountains skip’d like frighted rams,
The hills leap’d after them as lambs.

Verse 3
What ail’d thee, O thou trembling sea,
What horror turn’d the river back?
Was nature’s God displeas’d at thee?
And why should hills and mountains shake?
Ye mountains huge, who skip’d like rams,
Ye hills who leap’d as frighted lambs!

Verse 4
Earth tremble on, with all thy sons
In presence of thy awful Lord,
Whose power inverted nature owns,
Her only law his sovereign word:
He shakes the center with his nod,
And heaven bows down to Jacob’s God.

Verse 5
Creation varied by his hand
Th’ omnipotent Jehovah knows:
The sea is turn’d to solid land,
The rock into a fountain flows,
And all things, as they change, proclaim
Their Lord eternally the same.