Psalms 114:4
Mountains skipped like rams, hills like the young of the flock.
Open English Bible (US)
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 river ran backwards.
5Why, sea, do you flee? Jordan, why run backwards?
Cross References
Psalms 29:6making Lebanon dance like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox.
Psalms 68:16You high-peaked mountains, why look you askance at the mountain which God has desired for his home whereon the Lord will live forever?
Micah 1:3The Lord is coming from his holy place, he descends and treads on the heights of the earth,
Habakkuk 3:6He stands, and the earth trembles, he looks, and the nations melt away, and the mountains of old are scattered, the everlasting hills bow down. These are his ways from 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 →