KJV King James Version
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
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Psalm 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
WEB World English Bible
He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
ASV American Standard Version
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,
Surrounding context — Psalm 29
3 The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.
4 The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty.
5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his] glory.
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Cross-references
Psalm 114:4-7The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.Deuteronomy 3:9([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.Psalm 92:10But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.Habakkuk 3:6-11He 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.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.Jeremiah 4:23-25I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
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