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Thursday, November 28th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 29:6

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion (Mount Hermon) like a young, wild ox.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hermon;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Sirion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   God's;   Silence-Speech;   Unicorn;   Voice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Calf, the;   Unicorn;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Power;   Providence;   Revelation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Religion;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lebanon;   Sirion;   Unicorn;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hermon;   Sirion;   Thunder;   Unicorn;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hermon, Mount;   Lebanon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Glory;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Thunder;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hermon ;   Unicorn;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Unicorn;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sir'ion;   Thunder;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Calf;   Skip;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lebanon;   Unicorn;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Calf;   Hermon;   Number;   Omnipotence;   Psalms, Book of;   Sirion;   Unicorn;   Wild-Ox;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Demonology;   Unicorn;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
He makes Lebanon's mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox.
English Revised Version
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
Update Bible Version
He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
New Century Version
He makes the land of Lebanon dance like a calf and Mount Hermon jump like a baby bull.
New English Translation
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox.
Webster's Bible Translation
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
World English Bible
He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
English Standard Version
He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal al to-breke hem to dust as a calf of the Liban; and the derling was as the sone of an vnycorn.
Berean Standard Bible
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Contemporary English Version
God makes Mount Lebanon skip like a calf and Mount Hermon jump like a wild ox.
American Standard Version
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
Bible in Basic English
He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.
Complete Jewish Bible
and makes the L'vanon skip like a calf, Siryon like a young wild ox.
Darby Translation
And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo.
Easy-to-Read Version
He makes Lebanon shake like a young calf dancing. Sirion trembles like a young bull jumping up and down.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
King James Version (1611)
He maketh them also to skip like a calfe: Lebanon, and Sirion like a yong Unicorne.
New Life Bible
He makes Lebanon jump like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild bull.
New Revised Standard
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He maketh them also to leape like a calfe: Lebanon also and Shirion like a yong vnicorne.
George Lamsa Translation
He makes them also to skip like calves, Lebanon and Sirion like a young ox.
Good News Translation
He makes the mountains of Lebanon jump like calves and makes Mount Hermon leap like a young bull.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And hath made them leap like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion, like the bull-calf of wild-oxen;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(28-6) And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns.
Revised Standard Version
He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Si'rion like a young wild ox.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he maketh them to skip like a calfe: Libanus also and Sirion like a young vnicorne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he will beat them small, even Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn.
Christian Standard Bible®
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,and Sirion, like a young wild ox.
Hebrew Names Version
He makes them also to skip like a calf; Levanon and Siryon like a young wild ox.
King James Version
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Lexham English Bible
And he makes them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Literal Translation
He also makes them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Young's Literal Translation
And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The voyce of the LORDE breaketh the Cedre trees: yee the LORDE breaketh the Ceders of Libanus.
THE MESSAGE
The mountain ranges skip like spring colts, The high ridges jump like wild kid goats.
New American Standard Bible
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion like a young wild ox.
New King James Version
He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion like a young wild ox.
Legacy Standard Bible
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,And Sirion like a young wild ox.

Contextual Overview

1Ascribe to the LORD, O sons of the mighty, Ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. 2Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; Worship the LORD in the beauty and majesty of His holiness [as the creator and source of holiness]. 3The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; The God of glory thunders; The LORD is over many waters. 4The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion (Mount Hermon) like a young, wild ox.7The voice of the LORD rakes flames of fire (lightning). 8The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9The voice of the LORD makes the doe labor and give birth And strips the forests bare; And in His temple all are saying, "Glory!" 10The LORD sat as King at the flood; Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

skip: Psalms 114:4-7

Lebanon: Jeremiah 4:23-25, Habakkuk 3:6-11, Revelation 20:11

Sirion: Deuteronomy 3:9

unicorn: Psalms 92:10, Numbers 23:22

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:17 - his horns Psalms 114:6 - skipped Nahum 1:5 - mountains

Cross-References

Genesis 37:14
Then Jacob said to him, "Please go and see whether everything is all right with your brothers and all right with the flock; then bring word [back] to me." So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
Genesis 43:27
He asked them about their well-being, and said, "Is your old father well, of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"
Exodus 18:7
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down [in respect] and kissed him. They asked each other about their well-being and went into the tent.
1 Samuel 17:22
Then David left his provisions in the care of the supply keeper, and ran to the ranks and came and greeted his brothers.
1 Samuel 25:5
So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;
2 Samuel 20:9
Joab said to Amasa, "Is it going well with you, my brother?" And with his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa by the beard [as if] to kiss him [in greeting].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He maketh them also to skip like a calf,.... That is, the cedars, the branches being broken off, or they torn up by the roots, and tossed about by the wind; which motion is compared to that of a calf that leaps and skips about;

Lebanon and Sirion, like a young unicorn; that is, these mountains move and skip about through the force of thunder, and the violence of an earthquake attending it; so historians report that mountains have moved from place to place, and they have met and dashed against one another d. Sirion was a mountain in Judea near to Lebanon, and is the same with Hermon; which was called by the Sidonians Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir, Deuteronomy 3:9. This may regard the inward motions of the mind, produced by the Gospel of Christ under a divine influence; see

Isaiah 35:6.

d Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 83. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He maketh them also to skip like a calf - That is, the cedars of Lebanon. Compare Psalms 114:4, “The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.” Psalms 68:16, “why leap ye, ye high hills?” The meaning is plain. The lightning tore off the large branches, and uprooted the loftiest trees, so that they seemed to play and dance like calves in their gambols. Nothing could be more strikingly descriptive of “power.”

Lebanon and Sirion - Sirion was the name by which Mount Hermon was known among the Sidonians: Deuteronomy 3:9, “Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion.” It is a part of the great range of Anti-libanus.

Like a young unicorn - On the meaning of the word used here, see the notes at Psalms 22:21. The illustration would be the same if any young wild animal were referred to.


 
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