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Psalms 114:4
4the mountains leaped 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs!
Context of Psalms 114:4
2Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion. 3The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back; the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back? 6Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?
Read all of Psalms 114Psalms 114:4 word by word
הֶֽ֭הָרִים רָקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹֽאן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 114:4
- Psalms 39:6“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.
- Psalms 68:16why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the Lord himself will dwell forever?
- Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
- Exodus 20:18When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance
- Judges 5:4“When you, Lord, went out from Seir, when you marched from the land of Edom, the earth shook, the heavens poured, the clouds poured down water.
- Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
- Micah 1:3Look! The Lord is coming from his dwelling place; he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.
- Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it.
- Habakkuk 3:6He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed— but he marches on forever.
- 2 Peter 3:7By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
- Revelation 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place 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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