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He maketh them; the cedars last mentioned; which being broken by the thunder, the parts of them are suddenly and violently hurled about hither and thither.
Sirion; a high mountain beyond Jordan joining to Lebanon; of which see Deu_3:9 4:48. Lebanon and Sirion are here understood, either,
1. Properly; and so they are said to skip or leap, both here and Psa_114:4, by a poetical hyperbole, very usual both in Scripture and other authors; which is so known, that it is needless to give any instances of it. Or,
2. Metonymically for the trees or people of them, as the wilderness, Psa_29:8, may seem to be taken; and as the earth, by the same figure, is frequently put for the people which dwell in it.
Unicorn, Heb. reem; of which see See Poole "Num_23:22 Psa_22:21".