Psalm 114:4

4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Psalm 114:4 in Other Translations

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

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

4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs!

4 The mountains turned playful and skipped like rams, the hills frolicked like spring lambs.

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

4 The mountains jumped like rams. The hills jumped like lambs.

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

4 The mountains leaped like rams. The hills skipped like lambs.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 114:4 In-Context

2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;

4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.

5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?

6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?

Cross References

• 1. S Judges 5:5