KJV King James Version
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
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Psalm 89:12
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
WEB World English Bible
The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
ASV American Standard Version
The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing.
Surrounding context — Psalm 89
9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15 Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
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Joshua 19:22And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.Joshua 12:1Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:Job 26:7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.Deuteronomy 3:8-9And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that [was] on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;Psalm 98:8Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful togetherJudges 4:12And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.Psalm 133:3As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.Judges 4:6And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, [saying], Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?Psalm 65:12-13They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.Isaiah 55:12-13For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.Jeremiah 46:18[As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.Isaiah 49:13Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.Isaiah 35:1-2The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
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