Psalm 98:8

8 Let [the] rivers clap [their] hands. Let [the] hills sing joyfully together

Psalm 98:8 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 98:8

Let the floods clap their hands
Or "rivers" ^F5, dashing against their banks, as they pass along; a prosopopoeia, as the preceding and following, expressing great joy on account of the Messiah, the reigning King. Aben Ezra interprets this of men that are in rivers, as the sea; in the preceding verse of such that are in ships at sea; and the hills in the next clause of such that dwell on them;

let the hills be joyful together;
see ( Isaiah 55:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (twrhn) "fluvii", Cocceius, Gejerus, so Ainsworth.

Psalm 98:8 In-Context

6 With trumpets and sound of horn, shout joyfully before the king, Yahweh.

7 Let the sea with its fullness roar, [the] world and those who live in it.

8 Let [the] rivers clap [their] hands. Let [the] hills sing joyfully together

9 before Yahweh, for [he is] coming to judge the earth. He will judge [the] world with righteousness and [the] peoples with equity.