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The mountains shook,
    like sheep that are jumping.
The hills jumped like lambs.[a]
Tell me, sea, why did you run away?
Tell me, Jordan River, why did you turn back?
And you mountains and hills,
    why did you jump like sheep?

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Footnotes

  1. 114:4 The hills and mountains jumped like animals when the Lord was near. See Exodus 19:18-20.

the mountains leaped(A) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

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

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