| Christian Standard Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1When Israel came out of Egypt--the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language-- | 1When the Israelites escaped from Egypt— when the family of Jacob left that foreign land— |
| 2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel, his dominion. | 2the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel became his kingdom. |
| 3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. | 3The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away. |
| 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? | 5What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? |
| 6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs? | 6Why, mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, hills, like lambs? |
| 7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, | 7Tremble, O 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. | 8He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock. |
| The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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