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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 98:8. _LET THE FLOODS CLAP_ THEIR _HANDS_] נהרות _neharoth_, properly _the rivers_-possibly meaning immense _continents_, where only _large rivers_ are found; thus including _inland_ peo...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET THE FLOODS CLAP THEIR HANDS - The rivers. Let them join in the universal praise. As if conscious of their beauty, their grandeur, their usefulness; as if sensible that all this was conferred by Go...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 98 The New Song __ 1. The call to sing (Psalms 98:1) 2. The response (Psalms 98:4) 3. The praise of all (Psalms 98:7

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XCVIII. A PSALM OF GRATEFUL JOY. The poet calls all nations and all mankind to rejoice, because Yahweh has manifested His righteousness. Here, as in Psalms 98:2 Is., righteousness means Yahweh's vindi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FLOODS. rivers. CLAP. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 665 CHRIST’S ADVENT A GROUND OF JOY Psalms 98:1. O sing unto the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvellous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory. The Lord h...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET THE SEA ROAR, &C.— The whole heathen world are here expressed by the several parts of this visible globe; _sea_ and _world,_ and _floods_ and _hills;_ as before they were by _earth_ and _sea,_ &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Psalms 98, 99 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Shorter Service of Song (for a Sabbath Day). ANALYSIS Psalms 98: An Invitation to Sing the New Song of Jehovah's Victory in behalf of the House of Israel. Psalms...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. -As in the preceding strophe the intensity of the joy at the Lord's coming is set forth, so in this strophe its ex...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Both in the past and in the Psalmist's time God has shown at once His hatred of sin and His forgiving love to His people. INVENTIONS] RV 'doings.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. closely resembles Psalms 96, especially in its beginning and ending, and is to be referred to the same occasion. It celebrates a deliverance which God has wrought for Israel in the sight of a...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD RULES THE WORLD! PSALMS 98 (THE FIFTH *ROYAL PSALM) Jesus said, "You will see the Son of man sitting by the right hand of the Powerful One. He will come in...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CLAP THEIR HANDS. — This expression, descriptive of the lapping sound of waves, occurs also in Isaiah 55:12. LET THE HILLS BE JOYFUL TOGETHER. — “Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags amon...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נְהָרֹ֥ות יִמְחֲאוּ ־כָ֑ף יַ֝֗חַד הָרִ֥ים יְרַנֵּֽנוּ׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 98:1 THE two preceding psalms correspond in number and division of verses. The first begins with a summons to sing to Jehovah; the second, with a proclamation that He is King. A precisely simil...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WORTHY OF PRAISE FROM ALL THE EARTH Psalms 98:1 This psalm is parallel to Psalms 96:1. That dealt with the reign of God; this deals with the victory on which that reign is based, Psalms 98:1. God cou...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Another song of worship on the pattern of Psalms 96:1. It opens and closes in the same way. A new song and its ultimate reason, the judging of the earth by Jehovah with righteousness and with truth. H...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    PSALM XCVIII. (DOMINUS REGNAVIT.) The reign of the Lord in Sion: that is, of Christ in his Church. _ All their inventions. That is, all the enterprizes of their enemies against them, as in the case...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here all inanimate creation is again called upon to join the song. For if men should be silent, the very stones of the earth would cry out. And this appeal to the silent heavens, and the noisy sea, pl...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 98 is the result celebrated by Israel on earth. Jehovah has made known His salvation, and remembered His mercy and truth towards Israel. All the land (or earth) is summoned to celebrate Jehovah...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET THE FLOODS CLAP THEIR HANDS,.... Or "rivers" e, dashing against their banks, as they pass along; a prosopopoeia, as the preceding and following, expressing great joy on account of the Messiah, the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful together Ver. 8. _See Trapp on "_ Psa 96:12 _"_...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Make a joyful noise_, &c. Because you all now partake of the same privileges with the Jews, join with them in worshipping and praising God. _Sing unto the Lord with a harp_ Here again, as in Psalms 9...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let the floods clap their hands, as a token of applause, an expression of joy used at the accession of kings; LET THE HILLS BE JOYFUL TOGETHER, all these figures being purposely extravagant to denote...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ADMONITION TO PRAISE THE MESSIAH. This is the only hymn in the Psalter which simply bears the superscription, A psalm. In view of the wonders of God's grace and righteousness, as revealed in the comi...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-9 Let all the children of men rejoice in the setting up the kingdom of Christ, for all may benefit by it. The different orders of rational creatures in the universe, seem to be described in figurat...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 98:8 rivers H5104 clap H4222 (H8799) hands H3709 hills H2022 joyful H7442 (H8762) together H3162...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Exhortation to praise. The joy of the redeemed because of the setting up of God's Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The setting up of Christ's Kingdom is a matter of joy and...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The Chaldee entitles it, _a prophetic psalm._ The LXX and the Vulgate, _a psalm of David._ The occasion on which it was composed is not known; but it is universally admitted to be prophetic of Christ...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein._ MAN AND NATURE When piety and poetry are married to each other, such a song as this is the offspring of their marr...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O sing unto the Lord a new song._ GENUINE PRAISE I. Genuine praise is founded on the strongest reason (Psalms 98:1). Why should man be so urgently called on to praise God? 1. Because of the extraor...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 98:1. This hymn celebrates God’s universal kingship (v. Psalms 98:6) by referring to the “marvelous things” and “salvation” that the Gentiles

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 98:7 The invitation is extended to 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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This Psalm is little more than an echo of Psalms 96. Its subject is the last great revelation, the final victory of God, when His salvation and His righteousness, the revelation of which...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ANOTHER psalm of joy on the coming of God to judge the earth (Psalms 98:9). It is entitled simply "a psalm," and has no very peculiar features. Metrically, it is best viewed as composed of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Psalms 98:1-9, as I said, parallels Psalms 96:1-13 in many things. Notice Psalms 96:1-13, "O sing unto the Lord a new song." Psalms 98:

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