³ The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
⁴ More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
    more majestic than the waves^[a] of the sea,
    majestic on high is the Lord!^(A)

¹² Woe, the thunder of many peoples,
    they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
The roar of nations,
    they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!^(A)
13 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]]^[a]
    he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
    and like whirling dust before the storm.^(B)

⁵ Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
    O Jordan, that you turn back?
⁶ O mountains, that you skip like rams?
    O hills, like lambs?

⁷ Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,^(B)

⁴ Lord, when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled,
    and the heavens poured;
    the clouds indeed poured water.^(A)
5 The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.^(B)