The author of this psalm is unknown, and the occasion on which it was
composed cannot be ascertained. Its structure is similar to that of
the two preceding psalms, and it may have been written by the...
Once more the Psalmist celebrates Jehovah's recent manifestation of
His sovereignty. In Psalms 96 the universality of His kingdom, here
the judgement by which it has been manifested, is the prominent...
XCVII.
Though in a very great measure a compilation from earlier writings
(see Notes passim), this psalm, by more than one fine touch, proves
itself the product not only of a thoughtful, but of a tru...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 97
This psalm is ascribed to David by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin,
Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions. It is of the same argument, and
upon the same subject, as the precedi...
_A.M. 2959. B.C. 1045._
The LXX. call this “A Psalm of David after his land was restored to
him;” that is, as Bishop Patrick explains it, after he was made
master of all those countries which God anc...