¹ Praise the Lord. ^[1]

⁴ High above all the nations is the Lord.
His glory towers above the heavens.
⁵ Who is like the Lord our God?
He is seated on high.
⁶ He bends down to look at the heavens and at the earth.
⁷ He raises the poor from the dust.
He lifts the needy from the garbage pile
⁸     to seat them with nobles,
    with the nobles of his people.
⁹ He is the one who settles the barren woman in her home
    as a joyful mother of children.

¹ When Israel came out of Egypt
and the house of Jacob from a people with a strange language,
² Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel became his kingdom.
³ The sea saw and fled.
The Jordan turned back.
⁴ The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
⁵ What happened, O sea, that you fled,
O Jordan, that you turned back,
⁶ O mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you hills, like lambs?
⁷ Tremble in the presence of the Lord, O earth.
Tremble in the presence of the God of Jacob.
⁸ He turned the rock into a pool of water.
He turned flint into springs of water.