Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like wethers, the hills like lambs.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
In Context
3The sea beheld it, and fled: the Jordan was driven backward.
5What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? thou, O Jordan, that thou art driven backward?
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai smoked in every part, because the Lord had 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, at thy going forth out of Seir, at thy marching along out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, also the clouds dropped water.
Psalms 29:6And he maketh them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Siryon like young reems.
Psalms 68:16(68:17) Why watch ye enviously, ye many-peaked mountains, yonder mountain which God hath chosen for his residence? yea, the Lord will also dwell [there] for ever.
Micah 1:3For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his residence; and he will come down, and will step along upon the high places of the earth.
Habakkuk 3:6He stood forward, and made the earth tremble; he looked and dispersed nations; and there burst asunder the everlasting mountains; there sunk the perpetual hills: the ways of the world are his.
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 →