1When Israel left Egypt,
when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,
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Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his kingdom.
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The sea looked and fled;
the Jordan River turned back.
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The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
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Why do you flee, O sea?
Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?
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Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,
like lambs, O hills?
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Tremble, O earth, before the Lord –
before the God of Jacob,
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who turned a rock into a pool of water,
a hard rock into springs of water!