Christian Standard Bible | International Standard Version |
1When Israel came out of Egypt--the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language-- | 1When Israel came out of Egypt— the household of Jacob from a people of foreign speech— |
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel, his dominion. | 2Judah became his sanctuary and Israel his place of dominion. |
3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. | 3The sea saw this and fled, the Jordan River ran backwards, |
4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs. | 4the mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs. |
5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back? | 5What happened to you, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you ran backwards? |
6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs? | 6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? and you hills, that you skipped like lambs? |
7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, | 7Tremble then, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, |
8who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a spring. | 8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flinty rock into flowing springs. |
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