Psalms 114:4

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs!

English Revised Version
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like young sheep.

Update Bible Version
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

New Century Version
The mountains danced like sheep and the hills like little lambs.

New English Translation
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Webster's Bible Translation
The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.

World English Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

Amplified Bible
The mountains leaped like rams, The [little] hills, like lambs.

English Standard Version
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Munteyns ful out ioyeden as rammes; and litle hillis as the lambren of scheep.

Berean Standard Bible
the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Contemporary English Version
The mountains and the hills skipped around like goats.

American Standard Version
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

Bible in Basic English
The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

Complete Jewish Bible
the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

Darby Translation
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Easy-to-Read Version
The mountains danced like rams. The hills danced like lambs.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

King James Version (1611)
The mountaines skipped like rammes: and the little hilles like lambes.

New Life Bible
The mountains jumped like sheep, the hills like lambs.

New Revised Standard
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The mountaines leaped like rams, and the hils as lambes.

George Lamsa Translation
The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs of the flock.

Good News Translation
The mountains skipped like goats; the hills jumped around like lambs.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The mountains, started like rams, The hills like the young of the flock?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(113-4) The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.

Revised Standard Version
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The mountaynes skypped lyke rammes: and the litle hilles like young lambes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs.

Christian Standard Bible®
The mountains skipped like rams,the hills, like lambs.

Hebrew Names Version
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

Lexham English Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Literal Translation
the mountains skipped like rams; the little hills like lambs!

Young's Literal Translation
The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The mountaynes skipped like rammes, & the litle hilles like yonge shepe.

New American Standard Bible
The mountains skipped like rams, The hills, like lambs.

New King James Version
The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The mountains skipped like rams, The hills, like lambs.

Legacy Standard Bible
The mountains skipped like rams,The hills, like lambs.

Contextual Overview

¹ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; ² Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. ³ The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. ⁵ What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? ⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; ⁸ Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 39:6, Psalms 68:16, Exodus 19:18, Exodus 20:18, Judges 5:4, Judges 5:5, Jeremiah 4:23, Jeremiah 4:24, Micah 1:3, Micah 1:4, Nahum 1:5, Habakkuk 3:6, Habakkuk 3:8, 2 Peter 3:7-11, Revelation 20:11

Reciprocal: Psalms 18:7 - earth Psalms 29:6 - skip Psalms 46:3 - mountains Psalms 114:6 - skipped Isaiah 64:1 - that the Habakkuk 3:10 - mountains Zechariah 4:7 - O great

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The mountains skipped like rams,.... The mountains of Sinai and Horeb quaked and moved at the presence of the Lord, when he descended thereon to give the law; these saw his glory and trembled,

Exodus 19:18.

And the little hills like lambs; very beautiful are the larger mountains of Sinai and Horeb compared to rams, and the motion of them to their skipping; and the little hills adjacent to them to lambs: these may represent the greater and lesser governors in the Roman empire at the time when such large conversions were made in it as before observed; and which skipped, and trembled, and fled, and were moved out of their places at the downfall of Paganism and progress of Christianity, Revelation 6:14 and also may be an emblem of the difficulties which lie like mountains and hills in the way of a sinner's conversion and effectual calling, which yet give way to and are surmounted by the efficacious grace of God; all mountains become a plain before him, and when he works none can let.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The mountains skipped like rams - As flocks in their gambols. They seemed to move from place to place; everything seemed to be unsettled, and acknowledged the presence of the Omnipotent One. The word rendered “skipped” means to leap for joy; to dance. See the notes at Psalms 29:6. The reference here is to the agitations and commotions of the peaks of Sinai, when God came down to deliver the law. Exodus 19:16-18.

And the little hills like lambs - Hebrew, Like the sons of the flock. The reference here is to the less prominent eminences of Sinai. The lofty hills, and the smaller hills surrounding, seemed to be all in a state of commotion.