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The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.[a]
Why do you flee, O sea?
Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?
Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,
like lambs, O hills?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 114:4 sn The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. This may recall the theophany at Sinai when the mountain shook before God’s presence (Exod 19:18).

the mountains leaped(A) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?(B)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

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