John Gill Commentary Psalms 98:8

"Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy together" — Psalms 98:8 (ASV)

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.