Psalms 96:1
A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
In Context
2Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Cross References
Psalms 33:3Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.
Psalms 67:3That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations.
Psalms 98:1A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord anew canticle: because he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, and his arm is holy.
Romans 15:11And again: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and magnify him, all ye people.
Revelation 14:3And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the ancients; and no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand, who were purchased 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 →