Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Psalms 114:4 in other translations
| BSB | the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. |
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| WEB | The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. |
| ASV | The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs. |
| YLT | The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock. |
| DARBY | The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. |
| BBE | The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. |
| Webster | The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. |
What does Psalms 114:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 114:1-4
Psa 114:1-8. The writer briefly and beautifully celebrates God's former care of His people, to whose benefit nature was miraculously made to contribute. 1-4. of strange language--(compare Psa 81:5).
Psalms 114:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 114:4
- Judges 5:4-5
Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
- Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Exodus 20:18
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
- Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
- Jeremiah 4:23-24
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
- Habakkuk 3:8
Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
- Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
- 2 Peter 3:7-11
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. …
- Micah 1:3-4
For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
- Psalms 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- Psalms 18:7
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
- Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
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Context
- Psalms 114:3
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
- Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
- Psalms 114:5
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Psalms 114:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los montes saltaron como carneros: los collados como corderitos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les montagnes sautèrent comme des béliers, les collines comme des agneaux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Berge hüpften wie Widder, die Hügel wie junge Schafe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et nomen Domini invocavi: o Domine, libera animam meam. |