Psalm 114, Part 2

The sea beheld His power, and fled;
Disparted by the wondrous rod,
Jordaji ran backward to his head,
And Sinai felt the' incumbent God:
The mountains skipp'd like frighted rams,
The hills leap'd after them as lambs.

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

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 centre with His nod.
And heaven bows down to Jacob's God.

Creation, varied by His hand.
The' 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.