Psalms 29:6

Them. In the Hebrew this pronoun appears as a suffix to the verb in the form –em. The form is actually an archaic grammatical (enclitic) form not understood by the Jewish scholars who added the pronunciation to the vowelless text from the 7th century A.D. and on. Ugaritic (see p. 618) has shown that the ending –em should remain untranslated, so that the passage should be rendered: “He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox” (RSV). The mountains of Lebanon and Sirion themselves are meant, which appear to skip under the impact of the storm.

Skip like a calf. See Ps. 68:16; 114:4.

Sirion. The Sidonian name for Mt. Hermon, the highest mountain in the Anti-Lebanon range, towering 9,232 feet above sea level (see on Deut. 3:9).

Unicorn. Rather, “wild ox” (see on Ps. 22:21).