New Living Translation | Christian Standard Bible |
1When the Israelites escaped from Egypt— when the family of Jacob left that foreign land— | 1When Israel came out of Egypt--the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language-- |
2the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel became his kingdom. | 2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel, his dominion. |
3The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away. | 3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. |
4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs! | 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs. |
5What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? | 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back? |
6Why, mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, hills, like lambs? | 6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs? |
7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. | 7Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, |
8He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock. | 8who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a spring. |
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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