Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
- BSB Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy
- NKJV Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful together before the Lord,
- NASB May the rivers clap their hands, May the mountains sing together for joy
- NLT Let the rivers clap their hands in glee! Let the hills sing out their songs of joy
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- Isa 55:12For 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 89:12The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- Ps 65:12–13The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
- Ps 47:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
- Ps 93:3The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- 2 Kgs 11:12Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
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