Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
In Context
3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
5What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly.
Judges 5:4LORD, when thou went forth out of Seir, when thou marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.
Psalms 29:6He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
Psalms 68:16Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, at the mountain which God has desired for his abode? Yea, LORD will dwell [in it] forever.
Micah 1:3For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Habakkuk 3:6He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His goings were [as] of old.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 114:2-8
The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; 2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. 3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at… Read the whole commentary →