“ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. ”
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...
The (c) mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs. (c) Seeing that these dead creatures felt God's power and after a sort saw it, much more his people ought to consider it, and...
CXIV. The marvels on the way from Egypt to Zion, the future sanctuary of Yahweh, and to Canaan as Israel's possession. A Passover hymn.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. The mountains (namely, Sinai) skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs - ( Psalms 29:6 ). The fact alluded to is E...
This has been called 'one of the finest lyrics in literature.' Probably it is a post-exilic psalm wherein, under the figure of the old exodus from Egypt, the Psalmist chants the return from Babylon....
Skipped. — The Hebrew word thus rendered is translated “dance” in Ecclesiastes 3:4 . (See Psalms 18:7 .) Exodus 19:18 was no doubt in the poet’s thought, but the leaping of the hills formed par...
Psalms 114:1-8 It is possible that in this psalm Israel, restored from Babylon, is looking back to the earlier Exodus, and shrilling with the great thought that that old past lives again in the pr...
the Mighty God Uplifteth the Lowly Psalms 113:1-9 ; Psalms 114:1-8 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalm...
This is the second psalm in the Hallel. The first set forth the might and mercy of Jehovah. This is pre-eminently a song of His might, and so the name of God is used. If however it sings of His might...
The sacred writer is here triumphing in the grace and sovereignty of God, and demands by what power it was that the laws of nature should be so changed, in producing such wonders in creation? Moses s...
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, Ex...
The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs. Ver. 4. The mountains skipped like rams ] sc. At the giving of the law, Exodus 19:18 , which also causeth heartquakes in beli...
The sea saw it, and fled Saw that God was present with and among them in an extraordinary manner, and therefore fled; for nothing could have been more awful. Jordan is driven back At the appear...
The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange lang...
Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and other neighbouring hills or mountains. Compare Exodus 19:18 Psalms 68:8 Habakkuk 3:6,10 .
INTRODUCTION Date and Authorship unknown; ascribed to the three Hebrew children, Esther and Mordscai. BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE ( Psalms 114:1 ) I. The bondage was degrading . “Israel,” “Egypt...
Psalms 114:1-19 . When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven...
This is another hallelujah psalm, praising the Lord for deliverance from Egypt for calling the Hebrews to holiness for dividing the sea, and driving Jordan back for making the mountains skip like lam...
When Israel went out of Egypt. The workings of the Eternal will God has a will. He doeth all things after the “counsel of His own will.” The universe is but His will in form and action. It is t...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of reminiscence, designed to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon, during their "day of small things" ( Zechariah 4:10 ; comp. Ezra 3:12 ). If God had done so...
The God of Jacob the Deliverer out of Egypt. A majestic song celebrating the care of God for His people at the time of the exodus from Egypt, when all the powers of nature were called to contribut...
2 Peter 3:7-11 ; Exodus 19:18 ; Exodus 20:18 ; Habakkuk 3:6 ; Habakkuk 3:8 ; Jeremiah 4:23 ; Jeremiah 4:24 ; Judges 5:4 ; Judges 5:5 ; Micah 1:3 ; Micah 1:4 ; Nahum 1:5 ; Psalms 39:6 ;...
The mountains — Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and other neighbouring mountains.