Psalm 114:4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.

English Standard Version
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

New American Standard Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, The hills, like lambs.

King James Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs.

International Standard Version
the mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs.

American Standard Version
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.

Darby Bible Translation
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Young's Literal Translation
The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.

Cross References

Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Judges 5:5
The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

Psalm 18:7
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Psalm 29:6
He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

Zechariah 4:7
Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace to it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

114:1-8 An exhortation to fear God. - Let us acknowledge God's power and goodness in what he did for Israel, applying it to that much greater work of wonder, our redemption by Christ; and encourage ourselves and others to trust in God in the greatest straits. When Christ comes for the salvation of his people , he redeems them from the power of sin and Satan, separates them from an ungodly world, forms them to be his people, and becomes their King. There is no sea, no Jordan, so deep, so broad, but, when God's time is come, it shall be divided and driven back. Apply this to the planting the Christian church in the world. What ailed Satan and his idolatries, that they trembled as they did? But especially apply it to the work of grace in the heart. What turns the stream in a regenerate soul? What affects the lusts and corruptions, that they fly back; that prejudices are removed, and the whole man becomes new? It is at the presence of God's Spirit. At the presence of the Lord, not only mountains, but the earth itself may well tremble, since it has lain under a curse for man's sin. As the Israelites were protected, so they were provided for by miracles; such was that fountain of waters into which the flinty rock was turned, and that rock was Christ. The Son of God, the Rock of ages, gave himself to death, to open a fountain to wash away sins, and to supply believers with waters of life and consolation; and they need not fear that any blessing is too great to expect from his love. But let sinners fear before their just and holy Judge. Let us now prepare to meet our God, that we may have boldness before him at his coming.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. skipped … rams—(Ps 29:6), describes the waving of mountain forests, poetically representing the motion of the mountains. The poetical description of the effect of God's presence on the sea and Jordan alludes to the history (Ex 14:21; Jos 3:14-17). Judah is put as a parallel to Israel, because of the destined, as well as real, prominence of that tribe.