Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
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Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
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Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
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Let the field exult; and all that is therein; then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy;
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Passages linked to Psalms 96:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 55:12-13 For 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. Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”
- Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
- Isaiah 42:10-11 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants. Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
- Isaiah 44:23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
- Psalms 65:12-13 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain If the insensible creatures shall have cause to rejoice,…
If the insensible creatures shall have cause to rejoice, when God appeareth, much more we, from whom he hath taken malediction and sin.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all…
Psa 96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Ver. 12. Let the field be joyful, &c.] And so give check to the hardness of man’s heart, not at all affected with those benefits by Christ, wherein they are far more concerned than these insensible creatures; which yet have lain bedridden, as it were, ever since man’s fall, and earnestly wait for the manifestation of the sons of God, Rom 8:19.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let the field be joyful, and all that is…
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein,.... Not the field of the world, but of the church, separated from others by distinguishing grace; the peculiar property of Christ, cultivated and manured by his Spirit and grace, and abounding with the fruits and flowers thereof; of a wilderness becoming a fruitful field, and for that reason should rejoice, even with joy and singing, Isa 35:1,
then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice; the sons of God, so called, Sol 2:3, who, though like such, in their nature state, barren and unfruitful, yet, being ingrafted into Christ, become trees of righteousness; and so have reason to rejoice at their root in Christ, their stability by him, and fruitfulness through him: Jarchi interprets this of all the governors of the people; see Eze 17:24, all this, indeed, by a prosopopoeia, may be understood of inanimate creatures; the heavens, earth, and sea, fields, woods, and trees, rejoicing, if they could, and in their way, at such great and wonderful appearances in the Gentile world; see Isa 44:23. Aben Ezra interprets all this of the heavens giving dew, the earth its increase, and the field its fruit; all which is rejoicing.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. Thou sal glad al the trese of…
Verse 12. Thou sal glad al the trese of woddes. - Thou, that is in another Iyfe. Trese of woddes. - Synful men that were fyrst withouten frut, and sithen taken into God's temple.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Let the field be joyful ... - This is…
Let the field be joyful ... - This is taken - with the change of a single letter, not affecting the sense - from 1Ch 16:32-33. It is a call on the fields - the cultivated portions of the earth - to rejoice in the reign of God. As if conscious of the beauty with which he clothes them, and of the happiness which they confer on man in their beauty and in the abundance of their productions, they are called on to praise God.
Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice - The forests - the oaks, the cedars, the pines, that wave with so much majesty. If they were conscious of their own magnificence and beauty - if they could see how much wisdom and goodness God has lavished on them, in their forms, their branches, their leaves, their flowers, their fruit - if they could know how much they are made to accomplish in rendering the world beautiful, and in contributing to the happiness of man - if they understood what a bare, bleak, cold, desert world this would be but for them, they, too, would have abundant occasion for praise and joy.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. be joyful … rejoice] Exult … sing for…
12. be joyful … rejoice] Exult … sing for joy (R.V.). Then is significant: in that age when the Divine kingdom is universally established.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Then shall all the trees . . .—Comp.—
(12) Then shall all the trees . . .—Comp.—
“His praise, ye winds that from four quarters blow,
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Breathe soft or loud, and wave your tops ye pines,
With every plant in sign of worship wave.”—MILTON.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let the field be joyful; i.e. "the cultivated ground."…
Let the field be joyful; i.e. "the cultivated ground." And all that is therein. Its vines, its olives, its other fruits, and its harvests. Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord. Lebanon and Bashan shall rejoice equally with Carmel and Sharon. The whole earth shall "break forth into singing". (see Isa_44:23)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 12. Let the field be joyful, and all…
Ver. 12. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein. Let the cultivated plains praise the Lord. Peace enables their owners to plough and sow and reap, without fear of the rapine of invaders, and therefore in glad notes they applaud him whose empire is peace. Both men, and creatures that graze the plain, and the crops themselves are represented as swelling the praises of Jehovah, and the figure is both bold and warranted, for the day shall come when every inhabited rood of ground shall yield its song, and every farmstead shall contain a church.
Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice. He does not say, let them rejoice, but they shall do so. The faith of the psalmist turns itself from the expression of desire to the fully assured prediction of the event. Groves have in old times stood shuddering at the horrid orgies which have been performed within their shade, the time shall come when they shall sing for joy because of the holy worship, the sounds of which they shall hear. The bush is the stronghold of savage men and robbers, but it shall be sanctified to retirement and devotion. Perhaps the psalmist was thinking of the birds; so Keble must have supposed, for he versifies the passage thus
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"Field exults and meadow fair,
With each bud and blossom there,
In the lonely woodlands now
Chants aloud each rusting bough."
Ver. 12. Let the fields be joyful, etc. Let the husbandmen, and the shepherds, and all that dwell in the fields leap for joy; and the woodmen and foresters shout for joy, to see the happy day approaching; when all the idols that are worshipped there shall be thrown down together with their groves. Symon Patrick.
Ver. 12. Rejoice. The verb wgr expresses the vibratory motion, either of a dancer's feet, or of a singer's lip. Samuel Horsley.
Ver. 12. The trees of the wood.
His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow,
Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pines,
With every plant, in sign of worship wave. John Milton.
Ver. 12-13. He cometh, etc.
It chanced upon the merry, merry Christmas eve,
I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary
"Oh! never sin and want and woe this earth will leave,
And the bells but mock the wailing round, they sing so
cheery.
How long O Lord! how long before thou come again?
Still in cellar, and in garret, and on moorland dreary
The orphans moan, and widows weep, and poor men toil in
vain,
Till earth is sick of hope deferred, though Christmas bells
be cheery."
Then arose a joyous clamour from the wild fowl on the mere,
Beneath the stars, across the snow, like clear bells
ringing.
And a voice within cried. "Listen! Christmas carols even
here!
Though thou be dumb, yet over their work the stars and
snows are singing.
Blind! I live, I love, I reign: and all the nations
through
With the thunder of my judgments even now are ringing;
Do thou fulfil thy work but as yon wild fowl do,
Thou wilt heed no less the wailing, yet hear through it
angels singing." Charles Kingsley, 1858.
Psalms 96:13*
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 96:12 All of nature will experience renewal in God’s…
96:12 All of nature will experience renewal in God’s presence (65:13; 72:6, 16; Isa 44:23; 55:12; Rom 8:21-22).
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