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Selected Verse: Psalms 29:6 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 29:6 |
King James |
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He maketh them also to skip like a calf - That is, the cedars of Lebanon. Compare Psa 114:4, "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs." Psa 68:16, "why leap ye, ye high hills?" The meaning is plain. The lightning tore off the large branches, and uprooted the loftiest trees, so that they seemed to play and dance like calves in their gambols. Nothing could be more strikingly descriptive of "power."
Lebanon and Sirion - Sirion was the name by which Mount Hermon was known among the Sidonians: Deu 3:9, "Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion." It is a part of the great range of Anti-libanus.
Like a young unicorn - On the meaning of the word used here, see the notes at Psa 22:21. The illustration would be the same if any young wild animal were referred to. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Them - The cedars; which being broken by the thunder, the parts of them are suddenly and violently hurled hither and thither. Sirion - An high mountain beyond Jordan joining to Lebanon. Lebanon and Sirion are said to skip or leap, both here, and Psa 114:4, by a poetical hyperbole. |
21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.