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Psalm 96:12BSB·author unknown

Let the fields exult, and all that is in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

John Calvin Reformed

This exhortation is directed to all nations, not Israel alone, which proves it concerns Christ's kingdom. The heathen were mute and deaf to God until the Gospel spread the knowledge of Him everywhere; the Spirit stirred the saints under the Law to praise God until that day came.

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Commenting on Psalm 96:1-13

C.H. Spurgeon Reformed Baptist

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.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

We have here instructions given to those who were to preach the gospel to the nations what to preach, or to those who had themselves received the gospel what account to give of it to their neighbours, what to say among the heathen; and it is an illustrious prophecy of the setting up of the kingdom of Christ upon the ruins of the devil's kingdom...

Commenting on Psalm 96:10-13