Revised Standard Version RSV
Good News Translation GNT
1 When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
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When the people of Israel left Egypt, when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,
2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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Judah became the Lord's holy people, Israel became his own possession.
3 The sea looked and fled, Jordan turned back.
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The Red Sea looked and ran away; the Jordan River stopped flowing.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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The mountains skipped like goats; the hills jumped around like lambs.
5 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
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What happened, Sea, to make you run away? And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?
6 O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
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You mountains, why did you skip like goats? You hills, why did you jump around like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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Tremble, earth, at the Lord's coming, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
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who changes rocks into pools of water and solid cliffs into flowing springs.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.