Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

New American Standard Bible

The mountains skipped like rams,
The hills, like lambs.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Darby Translation

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Julia Smith Translation

The mountains leaped as rains, the hills as the sons of the flock.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

The mountains skipped like rams, [the] hills like {lambs}.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like young sheep.

NET Bible

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

The mountains, started like rams, The hills like the young of the flock?

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The mountains
הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

רקד 
Raqad 
Usage: 9

איל 
'ayil 
Usage: 100

and the little hills
גּבעה 
Gib`ah 
Usage: 69

References

Easton

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

Praise To God For His Works During The Exodus

3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. 4 The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?


Cross References

Exodus 19:18

And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

Habakkuk 3:6

From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.

Judges 5:4-5

Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.

Habakkuk 3:8

Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?

Exodus 20:18

And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

Psalm 18:7

Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

Psalm 39:6

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Psalm 68:16

Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

Jeremiah 4:23-24

Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

Micah 1:3-4

For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

2 Peter 3:7-11

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

Revelation 20:11

And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

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