Psalms 148:9 - Exposition

Mountains, and all hills . The later psalmists are great admirers of" mountains." Perhaps the fiat and monotonous Babylonian plains led them to appreciate the beauties of a landscape like that of Palestine (comp. Psalms 83:14 ; Psalms 114:4 , Psalms 114:6 ; Psalms 144:5 ; Psalms 147:8 ). Fruitful trees ; rather, fruit trees ; literally, trees of fruit . The Babylonian palms may have swept across the writer's remembrance; but probably the vine, the olive, and the fig, which were among the chief glories of Palestine, were in his mind principally. And all cedars . Babylonia had had no "cedars." When the exiles returned, the beauty of the cedar broke upon them as a sort of new revelation.