Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 114:4
4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs.
Psalms 114:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
- New International Version (NIV)the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
Context of Psalms 114:4
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel, his dominion. 3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs. 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back? 6Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs?
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הֶֽ֭הָרִים רָקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹֽאן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 114:4
- Psalms 39:6Yes, a person goes about like a mere shadow. Indeed, they rush around in vain, gathering possessions without knowing who will get them.
- Psalms 68:16Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks, at the mountain God desired for his abode? The Lord will dwell there forever!
- Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the Lord came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
- Exodus 20:18All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the ram’s horn, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.
- Judges 5:4Lord, when you came from Seir, when you marched from the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, the skies poured rain, and the clouds poured water.
- Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty. I looked to the heavens, and their light was gone.
- Micah 1:3Look, the Lord is leaving his place and coming down to trample the heights of the earth.
- Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; the earth trembles at his presence — the world and all who live in it.
- Habakkuk 3:6He stands and shakes the earth; he looks and startles the nations. The age-old mountains break apart; the ancient hills sink down. His pathways are ancient.
- 2 Peter 3:7By the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
- Revelation 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and one seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.
Commentaries on Psalms 114:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4The mountains skipped like rams - As flocks in their gambols. They seemed to move from place to place; everything seemed to be unsettled, and acknowledged the presence of the Omnipotent One. The word rendered “skipped” means to leap for joy; to dance. See the notes at Psalm 29:6. The reference here is to the agitations and commotions of the peaks of Sinai, when God came down to deliver the law. Exodus 19:16-18. And the little hills like lambs - Hebrew…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4fled: God parted the waters so that Israel could escape Egypt (Psalm 77:17–18; Exodus 14). The Jordan River turned back when Israel arrived to cross it (see Joshua 3). skipped like rams: God's presence made the mountains quake (Exodus 19:16–20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-81-4. of strange language--(compare Psa 81:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 114
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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