Mazmur 96:11

96:11 Let the sky rejoice, and the earth be happy!

Let the sea and everything in it shout!

Mazmur 98:7-9

98:7 Let the sea and everything in it shout,

along with the world and those who live in it!

98:8 Let the rivers clap their hands!

Let the mountains sing in unison

98:9 before the Lord!

For he comes to judge the earth!

He judges the world fairly, ¹ 

and the nations in a just manner.

Mazmur 114:1-8

Psalm 114 ² 

114:1 When Israel left Egypt,

when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, ³ 

114:2 Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his kingdom.

114:3 The sea looked and fled; ⁴ 

the Jordan River ⁵  turned back. ⁶ 

114:4 The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs. ⁷ 

114:5 Why do you flee, O sea?

Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

114:6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,

like lambs, O hills?

114:7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord –

before the God of Jacob,

114:8 who turned a rock into a pool of water,

a hard rock into springs of water! ⁸ 

[98:9]  ¹ tn The verbal forms in v. 9 probably describe God’s typical, characteristic behavior, though they may depict in dramatic fashion the outworking of divine judgment or anticipate a future judgment of worldwide proportions (“will judge…”).

[114:1]  ² sn Psalm 114. The psalmist recalls the events of the exodus and conquest and celebrates God’s kingship over his covenant people.

[114:1]  ³ tn Heb “the house of Jacob from a nation speaking a foreign language.” The Hebrew verb לָעַז (la’at, “to speak a foreign language”) occurs only here in the OT.

[114:3]  ⁴ sn The psalmist recalls the crossing of the Red Sea (Exod 14:21).

[114:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Jordan” (also in v. 5). The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[114:3]  ⁶ sn The psalmist recalls the crossing of the Jordan River (Josh 3:13, 16).

[114:4]  ⁷ sn The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. This may recall the theophany at Sinai when the mountain shook before God’s presence (Exod 19:18).

[114:8]  ⁸ sn In v. 8 the psalmist recalls the event(s) recorded in Exod 17:6 and/or Num 20:11 (see also Deut 8:15 and Ps 78:15-16, 20).