mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;
Parallel translations
- KJV Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
- BSB mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,
- NKJV Mountains and all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars;
- NASB Mountains and all hills; Fruit trees and all cedars;
- NLT mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,
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Quick answer
Mountains, hills, fruit trees, and cedars are called to praise God. The landscape and its vegetation glorify their Creator.
Overview
From towering mountains to fruit trees and great cedars, the features of the land are summoned to praise. Their beauty and fruitfulness testify to God's creative goodness. All such creation declares the glory of the God who made and sustains it through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Isa 44:23Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
- Isa 49:13Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break out into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
- Isa 55:12–13For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
- Ps 98:7–9Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
- Ps 97:4–5His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.
- Ps 65:12–13The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
- Ps 96:11–13Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
- Isa 64:1Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.
- Isa 42:11Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
- Ezek 36:1–15You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word.
- Ps 114:3–7The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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