Psalms 96:1
This is to David, when his land was restored to him. The Lord has reigned, let the earth exult. Let the many islands rejoice.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
In Context
2Clouds and mist are all around him. Justice and judgment are corrections from his throne.
Cross References
Psalms 33:3In the Lord, my soul will be praised. May the meek listen and rejoice.
Psalms 67:3Just as smoke vanishes, so may they vanish. Just as wax flows away before the face of fire, so may sinners pass away before the face of God.
Psalms 98:1A Psalm of David himself. The Lord has reigned: let the peoples be angry. He sits upon the cherubim: let the earth be moved.
Romans 15:11And again: “All Gentiles, praise the Lord; and all peoples, magnify him.”
Revelation 14:3And they were singing what seemed like a new canticle before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one was able to recite the canticle, except those one hundred and forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 96:1
This psalm is part of that which was delivered into the hand of Asaph and his brethren ( 1 Chron. xvi. 7 ), by which it appears both that David was the penman of it and that it has reference to the bringing up of the ark to the city of David; whether that long psalm was made first, and this afterwards taken out of it, or this made first and afterwards borrowed to make up that, is not certain. But this is certain, that, though it was sung at the translation of the ark, it looks further, to the kingdom of Christ,… Read the whole commentary →