# 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. Alternate translation: "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."