Psalms 114:4
The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
In Context
3The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.
5What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.
Judges 5:4Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.
Psalms 29:6He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.
Psalms 68:16\68:15\A hill of God is the hill of Bashan; a hill with high tops is the hill of Bashan.
Micah 1:3For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.
Habakkuk 3:6From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.
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 →