Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 turned backward.
5What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?
Cross References
Exodus 19:18Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Judges 5:4LORD, when Thou didst go forth out of Seir, when Thou didst march 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 68:16(68-17) Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode? Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.
Micah 1:3For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of His place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Habakkuk 3:6He standeth, and shaketh the earth, He beholdeth, and maketh the nations to tremble; and the everlasting mountains are dashed in pieces, the ancient hills do bow; His goings are 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 →