A Psalm from the Exodus
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When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
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Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.
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The sea observed 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, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
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O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
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Tremble, O 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 fountain of water!