Psalms 98:8

Old Testament Psalms

WEB

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

KJV

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

Commentary

Commentary

Let the floods clap their hands,.... Or "rivers" (e), dashing against their banks, as they pass alo ng; 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 Isa 55:12 . (e) "fluvii", Cocceius, Gejerus, so Ainsworth.