Symbolism: This verse may be read on two levels. First, as natural features, the trees also rejoice in their rest from the destruction occasioned by the tyrant. Second, the trees represent political Judah and its surrounding states, perhaps implied by the “cedars of Lebanon,” which are frequently used as symbols of other countries (see Judg. 9:15; Ps. 29:5–6, 104:16; Isa. 2:12–13). No longer will these states fear the more powerful nations that have, in the past, so frequently “felled” them.