Psalms 114:4
The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
In Context
3The sea hath seen, and fleeth, The Jordan turneth backward.
5What — to thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, thou turnest back!
Cross References
Exodus 19:18and mount Sinai [is] wholly a smoke from the presence of Jehovah, who hath come down on it in fire, and its smoke goeth up as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mount trembleth exceedingly;
Judges 5:4Jehovah, in Thy going forth out of Seir, In Thy stepping out of the field of Edom, Earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, Also thick clouds dropped water.
Psalms 29:6And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,
Psalms 68:16Why do ye envy, O high hills, The hill God hath desired for His seat? Jehovah also doth tabernacle for ever.
Micah 1:3For lo, Jehovah is going out from His place, And He hath come down, And hath trodden on high places of earth.
Habakkuk 3:6He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old [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 →