Psalms 114:4

4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

Psalms 114:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 114:4

The mountains skipped like rams
The mountains of Sinai and Horeb quaked and moved at the presence of the Lord, when he descended thereon to give the law; these saw his glory and trembled, ( Exodus 19:18 ) ( Psalms 68:8 ) ( Habakkuk 3:6 Habakkuk 3:10 ) .

And the little hills like lambs;
very beautiful are the larger mountains of Sinai and Horeb compared to rams, and the motion of them to their skipping; and the little hills adjacent to them to lambs: these may represent the greater and lesser governors in the Roman empire at the time when such large conversions were made in it as before observed; and which skipped, and trembled, and fled, and were moved out of their places at the downfall of Paganism and progress of Christianity, ( Revelation 6:14 ) and also may be an emblem of the difficulties which lie like mountains and hills in the way of a sinner's conversion and effectual calling, which yet give way to and are surmounted by the efficacious grace of God; all mountains become a plain before him, and when he works none can let.

Psalms 114:4 In-Context

2 Y'hudah became [God's] sanctuary, Isra'el his domain.
3 The sea saw this and fled; the Yarden turned back;
4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.
5 Why is it, sea, that you flee? Why, Yarden, do you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, do you skip like rams; and you hills like young sheep?
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