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Psalm 29:6

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

4The LORD’s voice is powerful. The LORD’s voice is full of majesty.
5The LORD’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
6He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
7The LORD’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
8The LORD’s voice shakes the wilderness. The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
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Lebanon and Sirion skip like young animals, a startling picture of how little even the mountains can resist YHWH’s voice.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Deuteronomy 3:9(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)Deuteronomy identifies Sirion as the Sidonian name for Hermon, naming the mountain that Psalm 29 pictures skipping like a young wild ox.
Numbers 23:22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.Both use the wild ox in portraying God's power: Numbers speaks of its strength, while the psalm pictures mountains moving like a young ox.
Psalm 114:4–7The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.Both passages picture mountains skipping like animals, using the movement of living creatures to describe the movement of the land.
Deuteronomy 33:17Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are …The wild ox appears in both poems, describing mountain movement here and the strength of Ephraim and Manasseh in Deuteronomy.
Psalm 92:10But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.Both use the wild ox as a comparison, one for mountains moved by God and the other for a horn exalted by God.
Revelation 20:11I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away. There was found no place for them.Both portray the earth moving before God: Lebanon and Sirion skip in the psalm, while earth and sky flee in Revelation.
Jeremiah 4:23–25I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.The shared thread is a startling portrayal of the earth: the psalm depicts skipping mountains, while Jeremiah sees waste and emptiness.
Habakkuk 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.Both describe mountains moving under God's power, with skipping in the psalm and crumbling mountains and collapsing hills in Habakkuk.
Psalm 114:6You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?Both portray mountains skipping through animal comparisons, with a calf and wild ox here and rams and lambs in Psalm 114.
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Encouragement

The skipping here belongs to a scene of overwhelming power. Even the mountains, which seem fixed and beyond reach, move at YHWH’s voice.

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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).