Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
American Standard 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 aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Judges 5:4Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
Psalms 29:6He maketh 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 hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell [in it] for ever.
Micah 1:3For, behold, Jehovah cometh 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 asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; 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 →