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[a]The sea saw and fled;
    the Jordan turned back.(A)
The mountains skipped like rams;
    the hills, like lambs.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 114:3–4 Pairs of cosmic elements such as sea and rivers, mountains and hills, are sometimes mentioned in creation accounts. Personified here as warriors, the pairs tremble in fear before the Divine Warrior. The quaking also recalls the divine appearance in the storm at Sinai (Ex 19:16–19) and elsewhere (Jgs 5:4–5; Ps 18:7–15).

The sea looked and fled,(A)
    the Jordan turned back;(B)
the mountains leaped(C) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

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