New English Translation
Psalms 29:6
6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox.
Psalms 29:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- New International Version (NIV)He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Context of Psalms 29:6
4The Lord’s shout is powerful, the Lord’s shout is majestic. 5The Lord’s shout breaks the cedars, the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox. 7The Lord’s shout strikes with flaming fire. 8The Lord’s shout shakes the wilderness, the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
Read all of Psalms 29Psalms 29:6 word by word
וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥ם כְּמוֹ־עֵ֑גֶל לְבָנ֥וֹן וְ֝שִׂרְיֹ֗ן כְּמ֣וֹ בֶן־רְאֵמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 29:6
- Psalms 114:4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- Jeremiah 4:23“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.
- Habakkuk 3:6He takes his battle position and shakes the earth; with a mere look he frightens the nations. The ancient mountains disintegrate; the primeval hills are flattened. He travels on the ancient roads.
- Revelation 20:11Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.
- Deuteronomy 3:9(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir),
- Psalms 92:10You exalt my horn like that of a wild ox. I am covered with fresh oil.
- Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull.
Commentaries on Psalms 29:6
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6He maketh them also to skip like a calf - That is, the cedars of Lebanon. Compare Psalm 114:4, “The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.” Psalm 68:16, “why leap ye, ye high hills?” The meaning is plain. The lightning tore off the large branches, and uprooted the loftiest trees, so that they seemed to play and dance like calves in their gambols. Nothing could be more strikingly descriptive of “power.” Lebanon and Sirion - Sirion…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Lebanon’s mountains and Sirion (another name for Mount Hermon) are high mountains to the north of Israel. The Lord can make even huge mountains shake when he commands it (see Psalm 114:4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. The tall and large cedars, especially of Lebanon, are shivered, utterly broken. The waving of the mountain forests before the wind is expressed by the figure of skipping or leaping.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 29
- 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
- EGW Writings
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