He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
In this psalm we have,
I. A demand of the homage of the great men of the earth to be paid to the great God. Every clap of thunder David interpreted as a call to himself and other princes to give glory…
Cambridge Bible
them Not the cedars, but the mountains generally, to be understood from Lebanonand Sirionin the next line. Cp. Psa 114:4; Psa 114:6; Psa 18:7 ff.
Sirion The old Sidonian name for Hermon (Deu 3:9),…
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