Psalms 114:4
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
American King James Version (AKJV)
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.
Webster's Revision
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
World English Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
English Revised Version (ERV)
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like young sheep.
Barnes's Psalms 114:4 Bible Commentary
The 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, Like the sons of the flock. The reference here is to the less prominent eminences of Sinai. The lofty hills, and the smaller hills surrounding, seemed to be all in a state of commotion.
Wesley's Psalms 114:4 Bible Commentary
114:4 The mountains - Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and other neighbouring mountains.
