Thank you @MarcLarcher. That did not fix the problem.
I decided to turn on voice colors and found that the measure in between had a melody that suddenly jumped to be a different voice which then caused the lyrics jump. I could not figure out a way to switch the voice of the melody line so I ended up re-inputting the notes and that fixed the problem for me.
Would appreciate if somebody could tell me how to change the voice of a selection of notes.