Psalms 114:4
The mountains, started like rams, The hills like the young of the flock?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
In Context
3The sea, beheld, and fled, The Jordan, turned back;
5What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, that thou turnest back?
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And Mount Sinai, smoked, all over, because Yahweh had come down thereon in fire,—and the smoke thereof went up as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain trembled exceedingly.
Judges 5:4O Yahweh! When thou didst come forth out of Seir, When thou didst march along out of the field of Edom, Earth, trembled, Heaven also, poured forth,—Yea, dark clouds, poured forth waters;
Psalms 29:6And hath made them leap like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion, like the bull-calf of wild-oxen;
Psalms 68:16Wherefore start ye up, ye mountains, ye peaks? The mountain God hath coveted for his habitation, Surely, Yahweh will inhabit it ever!
Micah 1:3For lo! Yahweh, coming forth out of his place,—that he may descend, and march along upon the high places of the earth.
Habakkuk 3:6He hath stood and measured the earth, he hath looked, and caused nations to tremble, and, scattered as dust, are the perpetual mountains, and, sunk, are the age-abiding hills,—Forthgoings age-abiding, 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 →