Psalms 114:4

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

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Albert 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 ack...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 i...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. The mountains (namely, Sinai) skipped like rams, and the little hills like...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 Eg...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Skipped ] i.e. trembled: cp. Sinai, Exodus 19:18 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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’...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 grea...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 san...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 nam...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 chang...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 gi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, Exo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 .
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Date and Authorship unknown; ascribed to the three Hebrew children, Esther and Mordscai. BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE ( Psalms 114:1 )...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 domi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This is another hallelujah psalm, praising the Lord for deliverance from Egypt for calling the Hebrews to holiness for dividing the sea, and driving...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 un...
The Biblical Illustrator

The sea saw it, and fled. The removal of obstacles I. Antagonisms are quelled. Wherever the Church has advanced-- 1. Sin and Satan have rece...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM of reminiscence, designed to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon, during their "day of small things" ( Zechar...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

the mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs, the reference being to the quaking of Mount Sinai and the surrounding country at the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 ; Mica...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The mountains — Horeb and Sinai, two tops of one mountain, and other neighbouring mountains.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 114:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 114:4