Psalms 114:6

6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; You little hills, like lambs?

Psalms 114:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 114:6

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams
Not for joy, but fear; what caused these trembling motions, these violent agitations, and quakings, and movings to and fro like the skipping of rams?

And ye little hills, like lambs?
what was it that disturbed you, and put you into a panic, that you skipped like frightened lambs? These questions are put, by a beautiful and poetical figure, to inanimate creatures; the Red sea, the river of Jordan, the mountains of Sinai and Horeb, and the hills about them; to which an answer is turned in the next verse.

Psalms 114:6 In-Context

4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Yarden, that you turned back?

6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; You little hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, you eretz, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Ya`akov,

8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a spring of waters.