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Atomic Bible
Psalms 114:6
O mountains, that you skipped like rams,
from A Psalm of Exodus, Psalms 114:1-8
What it says

It asks the mountains and hills why they leapt like rams and lambs.

What it is doing

This verse continues the poem's amazed questioning.

In context

1When Israel departed from Egypt, 2Judah became God’s sanctuary, 3The sea observed and fled; 4the mountains skipped like rams, 5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, 6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, 7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, 8who turned the rock into a pool,