Psalm 114:4

4 ¡Las montañas saltaron como carneros,
las colinas brincaron como corderos!

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 la tierra de Judá se convirtió en el santuario de Dios,
e Israel llegó a ser su reino.

3 El mar Rojo
los vio venir y se apuró a quitarse del camino;
el agua del río Jordán se hizo a un lado.

4 ¡Las montañas saltaron como carneros,
las colinas brincaron como corderos!

5 ¿Qué te pasa, mar Rojo, qué te llevó a quitarte del camino?
¿Qué sucedió, río Jordán, que te hiciste a un lado?

6 Montañas, ¿por qué saltaron como carneros?
Colinas, ¿por qué brincaron como corderos?