“ Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together ”
Let the floods clap their hands - The rivers. Let them join in the universal praise. As if conscious of their beauty, their grandeur, their usefulness; as if sensible that all this was conferred...
XCVIII. A Psalm of Grateful Joy. The poet calls all nations and all mankind to rejoice, because Yahweh has manifested His righteousness. Here, as in Psalms 98:2 Is., righteousness means Yahweh's...
floods . rivers. clap. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6.
DISCOURSE: 665 CHRIST’S ADVENT A GROUND OF JOY Psalms 98:1-9 . O sing unto the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvellous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory. T...
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together Let the floods clap their hands - נהרות neharoth, properly the rivers - possibly meaning immense continents, where only large river...
Let the sea roar, &c.— The whole heathen world are here expressed by the several parts of this visible globe; sea and world, and floods and hills; as before they were by earth and se...
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. -As in the preceding strophe the intensity of the joy at the Lord's coming is set forth, so in this strophe i...
This Ps. closely resembles Psalms 96 , especially in its beginning and ending, and is to be referred to the same occasion. It celebrates a deliverance which God has wrought for Israel in the sight o...
Clap their hands. — This expression, descriptive of the lapping sound of waves, occurs also in Isaiah 55:12 . Let the hills be joyful together. — “Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling c...
Psalms 98:1-9 THE two preceding psalms correspond in number and division of verses. The first begins with a summons to sing to Jehovah; the second, with a proclamation that He is King. A precisely...
Worthy of Praise from All the Earth Psalms 98:1-9 This psalm is parallel to Psalms 96:1-13 . That dealt with the reign of God; this deals with the victory on which that reign is based, Psalms...
Another song of worship on the pattern of Psalms 96:1-13 . It opens and closes in the same way. A new song and its ultimate reason, the judging of the earth by Jehovah with righteousness and with tr...
Here all inanimate creation is again called upon to join the song. For if men should be silent, the very stones of the earth would cry out. And this appeal to the silent heavens, and the noisy sea, p...
Let the floods clap their hands ,.... Or "rivers" e, dashing against their banks, as they pass along; a prosopopoeia, as the preceding and following, expressing great joy on account of the Messiah,...
Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful together Ver. 8. See Trapp on " Psa 96:12 "
Make a joyful noise , &c. Because you all now partake of the same privileges with the Jews, join with them in worshipping and praising God. Sing unto the Lord with a harp Here again, as in Ps...
An Invitation to Praise. 4 Make a joyful noise unto the L ORD , all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing...
No text from Poole on this verse.
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm is little more than an echo of Psalms 96 . Its subject is the last great revelation, the final victory of God, when His salvation and His righteousness, the revelation of w...
The Chaldee entitles it, a prophetic psalm. The LXX and the Vulgate, a psalm of David. The occasion on which it was composed is not known; but it is universally admitted to be prophetic of Christ...
O sing unto the Lord a new song. Genuine praise I. Genuine praise is founded on the strongest reason ( Psalms 98:1-2 ). Why should man be so urgently called on to praise God? 1. Because of t...
EXPOSITION ANOTHER psalm of joy on the coming of God to judge the earth ( Psalms 98:9 ). It is entitled simply "a psalm," and has no very peculiar features. Metrically, it is best viewed as co...
Admonition to Praise the Messiah. This is the only hymn in the Psalter which simply bears the superscription, A psalm. In view of the wonders of God's grace and righteousness, as revealed in the c...
2 Kings 11:12 ; Isaiah 55:12 ; Psalms 47:1 ; Psalms 65:12 ; Psalms 65:13