Psalm 98:8

8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;

Psalm 98:8 in Other Translations

8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together

8 Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together

8 Let the rivers clap their hands in glee! Let the hills sing out their songs of joy

8 Let ocean breakers call out, "Encore!" And mountains harmonize the finale -

8 Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy together

8 Let the rivers clap their hands and the mountains sing joyfully

8 Let the rivers clap their hands; let the mountains shout together for joy

8 Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing together with joy.

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 the blast of the ram’s horn— shout for joy before the LORD, the King.

7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;

9 let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Kings 11:12
• 2. Psalms 148:9; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 55:12