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Psalms 29:6
6He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He makes Lebanon’s mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox.
Context of Psalms 29:6
4The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic. 5The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox. 7The voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning. 8The voice of the Lord shakes the desert; the Lord shakes the Desert 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 leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 3:9(Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)
- Psalms 92:10You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured on me.
- Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox.
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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