Psalms 89:12

The north and the south The furthest extremities of the world. Cp. Job 26:7.

Tabor and Hermon These mountains are named, not so much to represent the West and East of the land, as because they are the grandest and most conspicuous natural features of Palestine. Tabor is described as a "strange and beautiful mountain," towering "over the monotonous undulations of the surrounding hills," and "so thickly studded with trees, as to rise from the plain like a mass of verdure." In Jeremiah 46:18 it is used as an emblem of pre-eminence. Hermon was "the image of unearthly grandeur, which nothing else but perpetual snow can give; especially as seen in the summer, when -the firmament around it seems to be on fire." " Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, pp. 350, 404.

shall rejoice in thy name Better as R.V., rejoice. Nature is a revelation of its Creator, and rejoices in the fulfilment of its office. Cp. Psalms 19:1; Psalms 65:12-13.