Psalms 114:4

What does Psalms 114:4 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 114:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Context

v.3The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.

v.4This passage

v.5What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 20:18

    And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.

  • Psalms 39:6

    Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • Exodus 19:18

    And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

  • Psalms 18:7

    Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.

  • 2 Peter 3:7

    but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

  • Psalms 29:6

    He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

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