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Selected Verse: Psalms 98:7 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 98:7 |
King James |
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof - See the notes at Psa 96:11.
The world, and they that dwell therein - The habitable world - the land - in contradistinction from the sea. Let there be universal praise on the water and the land. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Here, too, it is all an echo of the earlier language of Psalms and prophets: Psa 98:7 = Psa 96:11; Psa 98:7 like Psa 24:1; Psa 98:8 after Isa 55:12 (where we find מחא כּף instead of the otherwise customary תּקע כּף, Psa 47:2; or הכּה כּף, Kg2 11:12, is said of the trees of the field); Psa 98:9 - Psa 96:13, cf. Psa 36:10. In the bringing in of nature to participate in the joy of mankind, the clapping rivers (נהרות) are original to this Psalm: the rivers cast up high waves, which flow into one another like clapping hands;
(Note: Luther renders: "the water-floods exult" (frohlocken); and Eychman's Vocabularius predicantium explains plaudere by "to exult (frohlocken) for joy, to smite the hands together prae gaudio;" cf. Luther's version of Eze 21:17.)
cf. Hab 3:10, where the abyss of the sea lifts up its hands on high, i.e., causes its waves to run mountain-high. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Let the sea roar - These are either fine poetic images; or, if we take them as referring to the promulgation of the Gospel, by the sea all maritime countries and commercial nations may be intended. |
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.