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1 When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
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When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
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The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.
4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
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Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?
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O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of 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 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
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who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.