When Isr'l was from Egypt freed, And from strange language, Jacob's seed

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When Israel was from Egypt freed, And from strange language Jacob's seed;

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Then Judah bore his sacred name, And king in Israel he became.

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The sea saw this; amazed fled; Jordan drove backward to it's head.

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The mountains skipped about, like rams; The little hills, like frighted lambs.

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What ailed thee, O thou roaring sea, That thou, in such a fright, didst flee? Wherefore old Jordan, did thy tide, Rowl back, and to it's fountain glide?

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What terrors, ye fixed mountains, struck; That ye, like rams, so skipped and shook? Why leapt ye little hills, like lambs, That fly for shelter to their dams?

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Well may the mounts, and every flood, Bow, and retire, before their God. Tremble, O all the earth, with fear; Jehovah, Jacob's God, is here.

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Who, by his power, the rocks can break, And turn them to a watery lake; From flinty dry rocks, by a word, Fountains of waters can afford.