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Psalm 114
In exitu Israel
1
Hallelujah! When Israel came out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech,
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Judah became God's sanctuary
and Israel his dominion.
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The sea beheld it and fled;
Jordan turned and went back.
4
The mountains skipped like rams,
and the little hills like young sheep.
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What ailed you, O sea, that you fled?
O Jordan, that you turned back?
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You mountains, that you skipped like rams?
you little hills like young sheep?
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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 hard rock into a pool of water
and flint-stone into a flowing spring.