Psalms 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Psalms 29:6 in other translations
| BSB | He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox. |
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| WEB | He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. |
| ASV | He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox. |
| YLT | And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems, |
| DARBY | And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo. |
| BBE | He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox. |
| Webster | He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. |
What does Psalms 29:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 29:5-6
5-6. The tall and large cedars, especially of Lebanon, are shivered, utterly broken. The waving of the mountain forests before the wind is expressed by the figure of skipping or leaping.
Psalms 29:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 29:6
- Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
- Deuteronomy 3:9
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
- Psalms 114:4-7
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
- Jeremiah 4:23-25
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. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
- Psalms 92:10
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
- Habakkuk 3:6-11
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. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 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? Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. …
- 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.
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114:4-7
Lebanon.
Jer 4:23-25; Hab 3:6-11; Re 20:11
Sirion.
De 3:9
unicorn.
92:10; Nu 23:22
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Context
- Psalms 29:5
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- Psalms 29:7
The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.
Psalms 29:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | E hízolos saltar como becerros; al Líbano y al Sirión como hijos de unicornios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il les fait bondir comme un veau, le Liban et le Sirion comme un jeune buffle. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er macht sie hüpfen wie ein Kalb, den Libanon und Sirjon wie einen jungen Büffel. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quoniam ira in indignatione ejus, et vita in voluntate ejus: ad vesperum demorabitur fletus, et ad matutinum lætitia. |