North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
Parallel translations
- WEB The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- KJV The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
- NKJV The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name.
- NASB The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
- NLT You created north and south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise your name.
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Quick answer
God created north and south, and Tabor and Hermon rejoice in His name. All creation, even the mountains, praises its Maker.
Overview
The verse declares God's creation of the whole compass of the earth, with named mountains joining in joyful praise. Creation responds to its Creator with rejoicing. This points to the day when all creation will exult in the reign of God in Christ, liberated and renewed.
Cross-references & the web
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- Josh 12:1Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
- Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
- Josh 19:22The border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen cities, along with their villages.
- Judg 4:12When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,
- Deut 3:8–9At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—
- Judg 4:6She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
- Ps 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy
- Ps 133:3It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
- 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.
- Jer 46:18As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
- 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 35:1–2The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
- Ps 65:12–13The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
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