Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 96:12
Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
12. be joyful rejoice ] Exult sing for joy (R.V.). Then is significant: in that age when the Divine kingdom is universally established.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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, So 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The chronicler changes into the prosaic , and with the omission of the into . The psalmist on his part follows the model of Isaiah, who makes the trees of the wood exult and clap their hands, Psa 55:12; Psa 44:23. The , which points into this festive time of all creatures which begins with Jahve’s coming, is as in Isa 35:5. Instead of , “before,” the chronicler has the so familiar to him, by which the joy is denoted as being occasioned by Jahve’s appearing. The lines Psa 96:13 sound very much like Psa 9:9. The chronicler has abridged Psa 96:13, by hurrying on to the mosaic-work portion taken from Ps 105. The poet at the close glances from the ideal past into the future. The twofold is a participle, Ew. 200. Being come to judgment, after He has judged and sifted, executing punishment, Jahve will govern in the righteousness of mercy and in faithfulness to the promises.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(12) Then shall all the trees . . .Comp.
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.MILTON.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
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 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Then shall. Ginsburg thinks this should be “Yea, let”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Psa 65:12, Psa 65:13, Isa 42:10, Isa 42:11, Isa 55:12, Isa 55:13
Reciprocal: 1Ch 16:33 – the trees Isa 44:23 – Sing Isa 52:9 – Break Eze 17:24 – all the trees Eze 31:9 – all the trees Joe 2:21 – be glad 1Th 3:9 – before
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall all the {i} trees of the wood rejoice
(i) If the insensible creatures will have reason to rejoice when God appears, much more we, from whom he has taken malediction and sin.