We came out of Egypt
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| 1 ¶ When Israel went
out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. |
Sanctuary See
ex2508.
Judah ... Israel No priority is intended. The poetry is rhythmic rather than logical. |
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The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
.4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. |
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it The Lord's presence in His people empowered the Red Sea and
the Jordan river and, of course, the enemies of his people.
Mountains Apparently reference to Sinai ex1918. |
| 5 What ailed thee, O
thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
.6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? |
The sea and the Jordan are asked why. This could have been sung responsively by two groups. Group A taking the first and third blocks as I have divided them, and group B taking the second and fourth. |
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Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the
God of Jacob;
.8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. |
Here we add the two times God gave water from the rock. ex1706, nu20. |
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