NET Bible | New Living Translation |
1When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, | 1When the Israelites escaped from Egypt— when the family of Jacob left that foreign land— |
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom. | 2the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel became his kingdom. |
3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River 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 do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River? | 5What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? |
6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills? | 6Why, mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, 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! | 8He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock. |
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