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Let heaven and earth praise him; The seas, and everything that moves therein!
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All Creation Sings
Commentators explain that calling on heaven, earth, and seas to praise God is a powerful literary device. It's meant to show that God's worthiness of praise is so immense that the entire universe, both living and non-living, is summoned to join in. This hyperbolic language aims to stir our own hearts to greater worship.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let the heaven and earth praise him - All things; all above and all below.
The seas - The waters - the ocean…
16th Century
Protestant
Let the heavens and the earth praise him. From this we may conclude with greater certainty that, as I have mentioned above, David in the w…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let the heaven and earth praise him As those, by a prosopopoeia, are often called upon to do, to express the greatne…
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