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The Lord Works Wonders

(A) God brought his people
out of Egypt, that land
    with a strange language.
He made Judah his holy place
    and ruled over Israel.

(B) When the sea looked at God,
    it ran away,
and the Jordan River
    flowed upstream.
The mountains and the hills
    skipped around like goats.

Ask the sea why it ran away
or ask the Jordan
    why it flowed upstream.
Ask the mountains and the hills
    why they skipped like goats!

Earth, you will tremble,
when the Lord God of Jacob
    comes near,
(C) because he turns solid rock
into flowing streams
    and pools of water.

Psalm 114

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

The sea looked and fled,(D)
    the Jordan turned back;(E)
the mountains leaped(F) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

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

Tremble, earth,(H) 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.(I)