I will praise the LORD!

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When Israel came out of Egypt,
    Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Judah became God’s sanctuary,
    Israel his dominion.

The sea looked and fled,
    the Jordan turned back;
the mountains leaped like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

Tremble, earth, at the presence of the LORD,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool,
    the hard rock into springs of water.

(Psalm 114, NIV)*

* New International Version, Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica

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