Psalms 114:6

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

Psalms 114:6 in Other Translations

6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

6 O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?

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

6 And mountains, why did you skip like rams? and you, hills, frolic like spring lambs?

6 Mountains, that you skipped like rams? 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 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?

7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.