| New International Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, | 1When Israel came out of Egypt-- the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language-- |
| 2Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion. | 2Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion. |
| 3The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back; | 3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. |
| 4the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs. | 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs. |
| 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back? | 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back? |
| 6Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs? | 6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs? |
| 7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, | 7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, |
| 8who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water. | 8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water. |
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