| Holman Christian Standard Bible | NET Bible |
| 1When Israel came out of Egypt-- the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign 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; the 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. |
| 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back? | 5Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River? |
| 6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs? | 6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills? |
| 7Tremble, 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 turned 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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