Psalms 114:4
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the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.