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When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them; |
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Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom. |
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The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. |
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The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. |
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What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? |
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You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? |
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Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob; |
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Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain. |