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When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
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Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
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The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
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What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?
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Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs?
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Tremble, thou 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 of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
Scripture quotations are from the American Standard Version (ASV, 1901), which is in the public domain.
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