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Psalm 114:6

You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?

4The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
6You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
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Mountains skipping like rams unsettle the familiar sense of solid ground, as the poem questions creation before naming the Lord’s presence.

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Zechariah 4:7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”Both passages question mountains: Psalm 114 pictures them skipping, while Zechariah pictures the great mountain becoming a plain before Zerubbabel.
Job 9:5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.Mountains move in both passages, though Job names God’s anger while Psalm 114 pictures their movement through rams and lambs.
Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.Both passages describe mountains and hills moving before God, with the surrounding lines in Psalm 114 naming his presence.
Psalm 29:6He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.Both psalms picture the land skipping like young animals, using creatures full of motion to describe terrain that seems fixed.
Psalm 68:16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.Both psalms address mountains as though they could answer, setting their grandeur in relation to God’s presence.
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Encouragement

The mountains move at the presence of the God of Jacob. Their size does not put them beyond his rule, and neither does anything else in creation.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).