KJV King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.
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Psalm 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
WEB World English Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
ASV American Standard Version
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.
Surrounding context — Psalm 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.
5 What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?
6 Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
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Judges 5:4-5LORD, 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.Exodus 19:18And 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 20:18And 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 3:6He 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 4:23-24I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.2 Peter 3:7-11But 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.Habakkuk 3:8Was 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 20:11And 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.Psalm 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.Micah 1:3-4For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.Psalm 29:6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.Nahum 1:5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.Psalm 68:16Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this is] the hill [which] God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever.Psalm 39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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