English poem
Psal. CXIV
by Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
When Israel did depart th' Aegyptians from among: The house of Jacob from a folk that strangers were in tongue. Judah his holy place, his Lord-ship Israel was: The sea it saw, and fled: and back was Jordan forc'd to pass.
The mountains skip'd aloft, as if they had been rams: The little hills they also leap'd, as if they had been lambs. Thou Sea, what made thee fly? thou Jordan back to go? Ye mountains that ye skip'd like rams like lambs ye hills also?
Before the Lord his face O tremble earth with fear: When as the presence of the God of Jacob doth appear. Who turn'd the stony rock into a watery Lake: A water-running fountain he did of the flint-stone make.