“The rivers shall clap their hands together. Let us ask the Jews, who understand according to the letter. Do rivers have hands? Do rivers have voices? Do rivers have feet? Do rivers have a belly? Someone may say: It is not written about a belly, about feet. But I say to you: from one member we understand the rest as we…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 25, on Psalm 97
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8Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
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6With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
7Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
— Psalms 98:8 —
9Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.