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1When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, | 1When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, |
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom. | 2Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. |
3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back. | 3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back; |
4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. | 4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. |
5Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River? | 5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back, |
6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills? | 6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs? |
7Tremble, O earth, before the Lord--before the God of Jacob, | 7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, |
8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water! | 8who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water! |
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