The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 When Isra'el came out of Egypt, the house of Ya'akov from a people of foreign speech,
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When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;
2 Y'hudah became [God's] sanctuary, Isra'el his domain.
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Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.
3 The sea saw this and fled; the Yarden turned back;
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The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.
4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.
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The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.
5 Why is it, sea, that you flee? Why, Yarden, do you turn back?
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What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?
6 Why, mountains, do you skip like rams; and you hills like young sheep?
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You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Ya'akov,
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Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;
8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, flint into flowing spring.
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Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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