Mountains Praise Their Maker

Psalms 98:7-8

Let the sea and its fish give a round of applause,

With everything living on earth joining in.

8 Let ocean breakers call out, "Encore!"

And mountains harmonize the finale--

One of the cool things that one sees in the Scriptures again and again is how the authors—especially in the psalms—write about nature as if it is living and conscious like human beings.  In this passage we find the sea and fish praising God and the ocean breakers weighing in with an encore, along with mountains; all praising God for his power and majesty in creation. 

The writers of scripture personify inanimate objects as if they were living and conscious.  In regards to creation this is true.  All of creation points back to a wise and transcendent creator, powerful beyond imagination.  

To paraphrase John Piper, "God shouts in the gold of the sunset and in the deep blue of the sky; he shouts in the beauty of he night sky and in the majesty of soaring mountains; he declares in the power of the sea that he is God, and that he is worthy of praise."