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Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
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All Creation Worships
Commentators explain that the verse uses personification, where nature itself is called to worship. The 'clapping' of the rivers is described as the lapping sound of waves, and the hills join in a chorus of praise. This imagery shows all of creation responding with joy to God's goodness and majesty.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let the floods clap their hands - The rivers. Let them join in the universal praise. As if conscious of their beauty, their grandeu…
19th Century
Anglican
Clap their hands. —This expression, descriptive of the lapping sound of waves, occurs also in Isaiah 55:12.
Let the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let the floods clap their hands Or "rivers" F5 , dashing against their banks, as they pass along; a proso…
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