Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
In Context
3The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.
5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.
Judges 5:4O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped water.
Psalms 29:6And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns.
Psalms 68:16The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.
Micah 1:3For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.
Habakkuk 3:6He stood and measured the earth. He beheld, and melted the nations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of the world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity.
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 →