Psalms 29:6

6 He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion^[a] like a young wild ox.

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Psalms 29:6 in Other Translations

KJV

6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

ESV

6 He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.

NLT

6 He makes Lebanon’s mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox.

MSG

6 The mountain ranges skip like spring colts, The high ridges jump like wild kid goats.

CSB

6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion, like a young wild ox.

Psalms 29:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 29:6

He maketh them also to skip like a calf
That is, the cedars, the branches being broken off, or they torn up by the roots, and tossed about by the wind; which motion is compared to that of a calf that leaps and skips about;

Lebanon and Sirion, like a young unicorn;
that is, these mountains move and skip about through the force of thunder, and the violence of an earthquake attending it; so historians report that mountains have moved from place to place, and they have met and dashed against one another {d}. Sirion was a mountain in Judea near to Lebanon, and is the same with Hermon; which was called by the Sidonians Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir, ( Deuteronomy 3:9 ) . This may regard the inward motions of the mind, produced by the Gospel of Christ under a divine influence; see ( Isaiah 35:6 ) ( 40:4-8 ) .

FOOTNOTES:

F4 Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 83. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Psalms 29:6 In-Context

4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox.

7 The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.

8 The voice of the LORD shakes the desert; the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.

Cross References 3

1. Psalms 114:4
2. Deuteronomy 3:9
3. S Numbers 23:22; Job 39:9; Psalms 92:10

Footnotes 1

[a]. That is, Mount Hermon