Psalms 114:6
O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
BSB
ASV
Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs?
KJV
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams,.... Not for joy, but fear; what caused these trembling motions, these violent agitations, and quakings, and movings to and fro like the skipping of rams? And ye little hills, like lambs? what was it that disturbed you, and put you into a panic, that you skipped like frightened lambs? These questions are put, by a beautiful and poetical figure, to inanimate creatures; the Red sea, the river of Jordan, the mountains of Sinai and Horeb, and the hills about them; to which an answer is turned in the next verse.
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? What ailed ye, that ye were thus moved? There is but one reply: the majesty of God made you to leap. A gracious mind will chide human nature for its strange insensibility, when the sea and the river, the mountains and the hills, are all sensitive to the presence of God. Man is endowed with reason and intelligence, and yet he sees unmoved that which the material creation beholds with fear.
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Psalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
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Psalms 29:6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
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God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
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