| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, | 1When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, |
| 2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. | 2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom. |
| 3The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. | 3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back. |
| 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. | 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. |
| 5What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back? | 5Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River? |
| 6O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs? | 6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills? |
| 7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, | 7Tremble, O earth, before the Lord--before the God of Jacob, |
| 8who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water. | 8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water! |
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