499 B
499 B
General Information:
Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad
The earth and the coastlands are said to have emotions like people. AT: "Rejoice and be glad every person on the earth and near the seas" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
coastlands
Possible meanings are 1) "lands near the seas" or 2) "islands."