with the best ¹  of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice. ¹ 

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. ¹ 

Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills?

you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,

before the mountains were set in place – before the hills – I was born,

The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, ¹  and the hills are clothed with joy. ² 

for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills, ¹ 

“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

The Beloved about Her Lover: Listen! ¹  My lover is approaching! ²  Look! ³  Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills!

I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ¹  ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ ² 

For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills. ¹ 

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

A song of ascents. ²  I look up ³  toward the hills. From where ⁴  does my help come?

Their children are always thinking about ¹  their ²  altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, ³  set up beside the green trees on the high hills

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; ¹  I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, ²  and dry up pools of water. ³ 

Listen to what the Lord says: “Get up! Defend yourself ¹  before the mountains! ²  Present your case before the hills!” ³ 

The mountains tremble before him, ¹  the hills convulse; ²  the earth is laid waste ³  before him, the world and all its inhabitants ⁴  are laid waste. ⁵