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When Israel came out of Egypt,
Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
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Judah became God's sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
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The sea looked and fled,
the Jordan turned back;
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the mountains leaped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
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Why was it, sea, that you fled?
Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
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Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
you 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 hard rock into springs of water.