You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
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You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
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Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
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Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?
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- Psalms 29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 114:6 Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams;…
Psa 114:6 Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little hills, like lambs?
Ver. 6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped, &c.] These two verses teach us, saith one, that we may many times ask questions; and yet neither doubt of the matter nor be ignorant in them.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams,.... Not for…
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams,.... Not for joy, but fear; what caused these trembling motions, these violent agitations, and quakings, and movings to and fro like the skipping of rams?
And ye little hills, like lambs? what was it that disturbed you, and put you into a panic, that you skipped like frightened lambs? These questions are put, by a beautiful and poetical figure, to inanimate creatures; the Red sea, the river of Jordan, the mountains of Sinai and Horeb, and the hills about them; to which an answer is turned in the next verse.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams;…
Ver. 6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? What ailed ye, that ye were thus moved? There is but one reply: the majesty of God made you to leap. A gracious mind will chide human nature for its strange insensibility, when the sea and the river, the mountains and the hills, are all sensitive to the presence of God. Man is endowed with reason and intelligence, and yet he sees unmoved that which the material creation beholds with fear. God has come nearer to us than ever he did to Sinai, or to Jordan, for he has assumed our nature, and yet the mass of mankind are neither driven back from their sins, nor moved in the paths of obedience.
Psalms 114:7*
Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.