You created north and south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise 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.
- 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.
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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, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
- Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
- Josh 19:22The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
- Judg 4:12They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
- Deut 3:8–9We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
- Judg 4:6She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
- Ps 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
- Ps 133:3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
- 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.
- Jer 46:18“As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- 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 35:1–2The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
- Ps 65:12–13The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
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