The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Parallel translations
- WEB The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- BSB North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your 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
Cross-references · 13
- Josh 12:1Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
- Job 26:7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
- Josh 19:22And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
- Judg 4:12And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
- Deut 3:8–9And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
- Judg 4:6And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
- Ps 98:8Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
- Ps 133:3As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
- Isa 55:12–13For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
- Jer 46:18As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- Isa 49:13Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
- Isa 35:1–2The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
- Ps 65:12–13They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
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