He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion like a young wild ox.
Parallel translations
- WEB He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
- KJV He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- BSB He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
- NKJV He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
- NLT He makes Lebanon’s mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox.
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Quick answer
God makes Lebanon and Sirion skip like young animals. It depicts even great mountains trembling at God's power.
Overview
The mountains themselves leap like calves before the Lord's voice, dramatizing creation's response to His majesty. What seems immovable is moved by God. Such poetic imagery exalts the One whose presence makes the very earth shake and rejoice.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Num 23:22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
- Ps 114:4–7The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
- Deut 3:9(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
- Ps 92:10But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
- Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
- Hab 3:6–11He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
- Jer 4:23–25I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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