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New Revised Standard NRS
1 When Israel came out of Egypt— when the house of Jacob came out from a people who spoke a different language—
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When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
2 Judah was God's sanctuary; Israel was God's territory.
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Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it happen and ran away; the Jordan River retreated!
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The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.
4 The mountains leaped away like rams; the hills leaped away like lambs!
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The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
5 Sea, why did you run away? Jordan, why did you retreat?
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Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 Mountains, why did you leap away like rams? Hills, why did you leap away like lambs?
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O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
7 Earth: Tremble before the Lord! Tremble before the God of Jacob,
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Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 the one who turned that rock into a pool of water, that flint stone into a spring of water!
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who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.