en_tn_condensed/psa/097/001.md

General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry and rc://en/ta/man/jit/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/jit/figs-personification)

coastlands

Possible meanings are 1) "lands near the seas" or 2) "islands."