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1 When the Israelites went out of Egypt, the people of Jacob left that foreign country.
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When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
2 Then Judah became God's holy place; Israel became the land he ruled.
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Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The Red Sea looked and ran away; the Jordan River turned back.
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The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.
4 The mountains danced like sheep and the hills like little lambs.
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The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
5 Sea, why did you run away? Jordan, why did you turn back?
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What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 Mountains, why did you dance like sheep? Hills, why did you dance like little lambs?
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O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
7 Earth, shake with fear before the Lord, before the God of Jacob.
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Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 He turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into a spring of water.
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who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.