He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
KJV
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
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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,
Deu 3:9
. This may regard the inward motions of the mind, produced by the Gospel of Christ under a divine influence; see
Isa 35:6
.
(d) Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 83. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11.
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