Psalms 98:7

“Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof, etc.] (See Gill on “<199611>Psalm 96:11”), the world, and they that dwell therein; men, the inhabitants of the world; that is, let them rejoice because this glorious King has taken to himself his great power, and reigns, (<661115>Revelation 11:15-17).”

“Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof - See the notes at Psalms 96:11. The world, and they that dwell therein - The habitable world - the land - in contradistinction from the sea. Let there be universal praise on the water and the land. return to 'Top of Page'”

“98:7-9 The created order is personified as rejoicing at the coming of the righteous Judge (see 93:3-4; 96:11-13).”

“Let: Psa. 96:11-99:9 world: Psa 97:1; Isa 49:13, Isa 61:11 Psalms 98:8”

“Here, too, it is all an echo of the earlier language of Psalms and prophets: Psa 98:7 = Psa 96:11; Psa 98:7 like Psa 24:1; Psa 98:8 after Isa 55:12 (where we find מחא כּף instead of the otherwise customary תּקע כּף, Psa 47:2; or הכּה כּף, Kg2 11:12, is said of the trees of the field); Psa 98:9 \- Psa 96:13, cf. Psa 36:10. In the bringing in of nature to participate in the joy of mankind, the clapping rivers (נהרות) are original to this Psalm: the rivers cast up high waves, which flow into one another like clapping hands; (Note: Luther renders: "the water-floods exult" (frohlocken); and Eychman's Vocabularius predicantium explains plaudere by "to exult (frohlocken) for joy, to smite the hands…”