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Read & copy the quotation
“Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice.”
- Date
- 1611
- English wording
- King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
Meaning of “Let the field be joyful, and all that…”
Fields and trees are personified as rejoicing, turning the landscape into part of a larger image of praise, abundance, and shared gladness.
Where does it come from?
Psalm 96:12, King James Version; the verse belongs to a sequence in which sea, fields, and trees participate figuratively in rejoicing.
