Psalms 65:6

65:6 You created the mountains by your power, ¹ 

and demonstrated your strength. ² 

Psalms 72:3

72:3 The mountains will bring news of peace to the people,

and the hills will announce justice. ³ 

Psalms 98:8

98:8 Let the rivers clap their hands!

Let the mountains sing in unison

Psalms 104:10

104:10 He turns springs into streams; ⁴ 

they flow between the mountains.

Psalms 104:18

104:18 The wild goats live in the high mountains; ⁵ 

the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs.

Psalms 104:32

104:32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes;

he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

Psalms 114:4

114:4 The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs. ⁶ 

Psalms 114:6

114:6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,

like lambs, O hills?

[65:6]  ¹ tn Heb “[the] one who establishes [the] mountains by his power.”

[65:6]  ² tn Heb “one [who] is girded with strength”; or “one [who] girds himself with strength.”

[72:3]  ³ tn Heb “[the] mountains will bear peace to the people, and [the] hills with justice.” The personified mountains and hills probably represent messengers who will sweep over the land announcing the king’s just decrees and policies. See Isa 52:7 and C. A. Briggs and E. G. Briggs, Psalms (ICC), 2:133.

[104:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “[the] one who sends springs into streams.” Another option is to translate, “he sends streams [i.e., streams that originate from springs] into the valleys” (cf. NIV).

[104:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “the high mountains [are] for the goats.”

[114:4]  ⁹ sn The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. This may recall the theophany at Sinai when the mountain shook before God’s presence (Exod 19:18).