mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,
Parallel translations
- WEB mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;
- KJV Mountains, and all hills; fruitful 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 for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
- Isa 49:13Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
- Isa 55:12–13You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
- Ps 98:7–9Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
- Ps 97:4–5His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
- Ps 65:12–13The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
- Ps 96:11–13Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
- Isa 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
- Isa 42:11Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.
- Ezek 36:1–15“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
- Ps 114:3–7The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
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