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Psalms 98:8 — King James Version← Study notes

Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together


Psalms 98:8Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 98:86 words
HebrewMeaning
נְהָר֥וֹתnəhārwōt
riversnounH5104
river
יִמְחֲאוּyiməḥăʾw
let them clapverbH4222
כָ֑ףkāp
a palmnounH3709
foot · hand · -dle · ) ···
יַ֝֗חַדyaḥad
togetheradvH3162
at all · both · likewise · only ···
הָרִ֥יםhāriym
mountainsnounH2022
mount · promotion
יְרַנֵּֽנוּyəranēnw
let them sing for joyverbH7442
cry out · be joyful (greatly · make to) rejoice · shout ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 98
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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