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When Israel came out of Egypt —
the house of Jacob from a people
who spoke a foreign language —
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Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel, his dominion.
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The sea looked and fled;
the Jordan turned back.
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The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills, like lambs.
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Why was it, sea, that you fled?
Jordan, that you turned back?
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Mountains, that you skipped like rams?
Hills, like lambs?
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Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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who turned the rock into a pool,
the flint into a spring.