“Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together”
The rivers' response: "Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing together for joy." The personification of natural features as clapping and singing emphasizes the universality of worship.
Church Fathers on Psalms 98:8
1. “O sing unto the Lord a new song” Psalm 97:1. The new man knows this, the old man knows it not. The old man is the old life, and the new man the new life: the old life is derived from Adam, the new life is formed in Christ. But in this Psalm, the whole world is enjoined to sing a new song. More openly elsewhere the words are these: “O sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, all the whole earth;” that they who cut themselves off from the communion of the whole…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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