Psalms 98:8

floods. rivers.

clap. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 98:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let the floods clap their hands - The rivers. Let them join in the universal praise. As if conscious of their beauty, their grandeur, their usefu...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XCVIII. A Psalm of Grateful Joy. The poet calls all nations and all mankind to rejoice, because Yahweh has manifested His righteousness. Here, as i...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 ha...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together Let the floods clap their hands - נהרות neharoth, properly the rivers - possibly...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. closely resembles Psalms 96 , especially in its beginning and ending, and is to be referred to the same occasion. It celebrates a deliveran...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Both in the past and in the Psalmist's time God has shown at once His hatred of sin and His forgiving love to His people. Inventions] RV 'doings.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Clap their hands. — This expression, descriptive of the lapping sound of waves, occurs also in Isaiah 55:12 . Let the hills be joyful together....
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let the floods clap their hands ,.... Or "rivers" e, dashing against their banks, as they pass along; a prosopopoeia, as the preceding and following...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful together Ver. 8. See Trapp on " Psa 96:12 "
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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. Sin...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Invitation to Praise. 4 Make a joyful noise unto the L ORD , all t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 sa...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 ur...
The Biblical Illustrator

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Man and nature When piety and poetry are married to each oth...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 pecu...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 G...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Let the floods clap their hands, as a token of applause, an expression of joy used at the accession of kings; let the hills be joyful together, all...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 11:12 ; Isaiah 55:12 ; Psalms 47:1 ; Psalms 65:12 ; Psalms 65:13

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

Related Commentaries of Psalms 98:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 98:8