From George F. Handel's famous oratorio, The Messiah. The music of the baroque era likes to display vocal fireworks with fast moving notes that scale up and down the landscape just like the mountains depicted in this song.
lyrics
Ev'ry valley shall be exalted,
And ev'ry mountain and hill made low;
The crooked straight and the rough places plain.
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