| Holman Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1When Israel came out of Egypt-- the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language-- | 1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; |
| 2Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion. | 2Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. |
| 3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. | 3The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. |
| 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs. | 4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. |
| 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back? | 5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? |
| 6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs? | 6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? |
| 7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, | 7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; |
| 8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water. | 8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. |
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