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98:7-9 Let all Nature Join in the Song. This section extends the invitation from the human inhabitants of the world (the world and those who dwell in it) to include even the sea and all that fills it, the rivers, and the hills. The entire creation, human and otherwise, can rejoice at the prospect of God's just rule (as in 96:13, the sense of judge is "administer justice through a just rule"; see note on Psalm 96). Human beings were made to submit to God's rule and to govern the creation in wisdom and love; when they acknowledge God's kingship, they and the rest of the creation will flourish.