Psalms 114:4

² Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

³ The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

⁵ Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

⁶ O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
KJV: The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
WEB: The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
ASV: The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
DARBY: The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
BLB: The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like sons of the flock.

ÅB: Fjellene hoppet som værer, haugene som unge lam.
OTB: Fjellene hoppet som værer,
Haugene som unge lam.
B1930: Fjellene hoppet som værer, haugene som unge lam.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Judges 5:4–5
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
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Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
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Exodus 20:18
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
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Habakkuk 3:6
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
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Jeremiah 4:23–24
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
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Habakkuk 3:8
Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
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Revelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
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2 Peter 3:7–11
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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