Psalm 98:8

8 The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult.

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 of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king.

7 Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it.

8 The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult.

9 For he is come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness.