John Gill Commentary Psalms 29:6

"He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox." — Psalms 29:6 (ASV)

He makes them also to skip like a calf
That is, the cedars, the branches being broken off, or they torn up by the roots, and tossed about by the wind; which motion is compared to that of a calf that leaps and skips about;

Lebanon and Sirion, like a young unicorn ;
That is, these mountains move and skip about through the force of thunder, and the violence of an earthquake attending it; so historians report that mountains have moved from place to place, and they have met and dashed against one another^F4.

Sirion was a mountain in Judea near to Lebanon, and is the same with Hermon; which was called by the Sidonians Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir, (Deuteronomy 3:9) . This may regard the inward motions of the mind, produced by the Gospel of Christ under a divine influence; see (Isaiah 35:6) (40:4-8) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F4: Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 83. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11.