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New Century Version NCV
1 When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
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When the Israelites went out of Egypt, the people of Jacob left that foreign country.
2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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Then Judah became God's holy place; Israel became the land he ruled.
3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
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The Red Sea looked and ran away; the Jordan River turned back.
4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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The mountains danced like sheep and the hills like little lambs.
5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
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Sea, why did you run away? Jordan, why did you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?
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Mountains, why did you dance like sheep? Hills, why did you dance like little lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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Earth, shake with fear before the Lord, before the God of Jacob.
8 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
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He turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into a spring of water.