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Thread: Psalm 114: 4-5... The mountains skipped like rams...
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Simon
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Verse nominated by frin
"The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
Why ails you, O sea, that you flee?"
(Psalm 114: 4-5, in context)
frin comments: The rhymes are twee. They haunt me.
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Lyda*Rose
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I rather like it. It reminds me of geography witnessed on God's time.
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mousethief
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This is a real stretch.
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ken
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That's one of the best bits!
Try a different translation if you don't like the rhymes
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Kelly Alves
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"As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti." --Toto.
I can handle rams as a simile for mountains. I cannot handle mountains as a simile for other mountains. Bible-1, Toto-0.
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mousethief
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I always heard that as "rises like an empress" -- now I shall have to go look it up.
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mousethief
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Foo you're right. My way is better.
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ken
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Since when did Kilimanjaro rise like anything over Serengeti?
Don't they have maps in Kansas, or wherever Toto comes from?
Tsavo, maybe. Amboseli, yes. But not Serengeti.
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Kelly Alves
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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
I always heard that as "rises like an empress" -- now I shall have to go look it up.
I always thought it was "A lepress",until someone on the Ship set me straight. My version is much better, IMO.
[To Ken: Yeah, that, too. But you see my point about the rams, right?]
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Orlando098
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
I always heard that as "rises like an empress" -- now I shall have to go look it up.
I always thought it was "A lepress",until someone on the Ship set me straight. My version is much better, IMO.
[To Ken: Yeah, that, too. But you see my point about the rams, right?]
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) lepress!! lol . I agree comparing a mountain to another mountain sucks as poetry. Might just as well go with the Blackadder route - rises like a enormous ris-ey thing above the Serengeti (or something). It's even worse if it doesn't actually do anything of the sort.
I agree the original verse is rather twee, but it is quite jolly. Makes change from all this baby eating and rape and whatnot we have had on this part of the forum.
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Ariel
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quote:
"The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
What ails you, O sea, that you flee?"
(Psalm 114: 4-5, in context)
We used to solemnly chant this every Sunday at Vespers, antiphonally. Not a smile from anybody.
As much fun as "your hair is like a herd of goats and your teeth are like a flock of sheep." Try that one on a prospective date some evening and see where it gets you.
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Orlando098
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well it's better than "thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus"
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Golden Key
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Sounds like a description of an earthquake.
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mousethief
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quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Sounds like a description of an earthquake.
Plus tsunami.
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Golden Key
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Yes re tsunami.
Sometimes, people have assumed that ancient writings (not just the Bible) are simply poetic, metaphoric, and/or fictional...only to find out later that the text was discussing an actual happening.
FWIW.
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BWSmith
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Psalm 114 goin' OLD SKOOL...
FO
and THREE
and TWO
and ONE...
(wikka-wikka-wikka-wikka-wikka-wikka!)
i said a hip
hop
the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop....
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