Psalms 29:6 - Exposition

He maketh them also to skip like a calf (comp. Psalms 18:7 ). As the thunder crashes and rolls and reverberates among the mountains, it seems as though the mountains themselves shook, and were moved from their places. This is expressed with extreme vividness, though no doubt with truly Oriental hyperbole, in the present passage. Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn ; rather, like a young wild ox. Lebanon and Sirion, or Hermon ( Deuteronomy 3:9 ), are the two principal mountains of Palestine, Hermon being visible throughout almost the whole extent of the Holy Land, and Lebanon enjoying a commanding position beyond Galilee to the north. The storm which shook these lofty mountain-tracts would indeed be a manifestation of power,