Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

The mountains skipped like rams, 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.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

The mountains were jumping like goats, and 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 fled. The Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. 5 What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?


Cross References

Exodus 19:18

And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His goings were [as] of old.

Judges 5:4-5

LORD, when thou went forth out of Seir, when thou marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.

Habakkuk 3:8

Was LORD displeased with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers, or thy wrath against the sea, that thou rode upon thy horses, upon thy chariots of salvation?

Exodus 20:18

And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.

Psalm 18:7

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.

Psalm 29:6

He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

Psalm 68:16

Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, at the mountain which God has desired for his abode? Yea, LORD will dwell [in it] forever.

Micah 1:3-4

For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein.

2 Peter 3:7-11

But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men.

Revelation 20:11

And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

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