Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 When the people of Israel left Egypt, when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,
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When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
2 Judah became the Lord's holy people, Israel became his own possession.
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Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The Red Sea looked and ran away; the Jordan River stopped flowing.
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The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like goats; the hills jumped around like lambs.
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The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
5 What happened, Sea, to make you run away? And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?
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What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
6 You mountains, why did you skip like goats? You hills, why did you jump around like lambs?
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You mountains, that you skipped like rams; You little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the Lord's coming, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who changes rocks into pools of water and solid cliffs into flowing springs.
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Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a spring of waters.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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