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The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 114 -

A Psalm from the Exodus

1
Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:
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Judea was made his sanctuary; Israel was made his power.
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The sea looked, and it fled. The Jordan was turned back again.
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The mountains exulted like rams, and the hills like lambs among the sheep.(a)
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What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again?
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What happened to you, O mountains, so that you exulted like rams, and to you, O hills, so that you exulted like lambs among the sheep?
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Before the face of the Lord, the earth was moved, before the face of the God of Jacob.
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He converted the rock into pools of water, and the cliff into fountains of waters.

Footnotes

(a)113:4 The genitive case does not always translate as ‘of,’ nor does it always connotate possession. It can also translate as ‘among.’(Conte)
(b)113:10 The verb here is implied from the previous verse.(Conte)

A Psalm from the Exodus

1
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
2
Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3
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 was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
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You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?
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Tremble, you 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 spring of waters.
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