Salmi 114:6

6 E voi, monti, che saltaste come montoni; E voi, colli, come agnelli?

Salmi 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.

Salmi 114:6 In-Context

4 I monti saltarono come montoni, I colli come agnelli.

5 Che avesti, o mare, che tu fuggisti? E tu, Giordano, che ti rivolgesti a ritroso?

6 E voi, monti, che saltaste come montoni; E voi, colli, come agnelli?

7 Trema, o terra, per la presenza del Signore; Per la presenza dell’Iddio di Giacobbe;

8 Il quale mutò la roccia in guazzo d’acqua, Il macigno in fonte d’acqua.