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Psalms 98:7-9

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 rivers, and the hills. The entire creation, human and otherwise, can rejoice at the prospect of God’s just rule (to judge here is to administer justice through a just rule).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 98:7. _LET THE SEA ROAR_] These are either fine poetic images; or, if we take them as referring to the promulgation of the Gospel, by the _sea_ all maritime countries and commercial natio...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET THE SEA ROAR, AND THE FULNESS THEREOF - See the notes at Psalms 96:11. THE WORLD, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN - The habitable world - the land - in contradistinction from the sea. Let there be un...

  • 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

    THE WORLD: i.e. as inhabited. Hebrew. _tebel,_...

  • 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

    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

    See Psalms 96:11. “Listen! the mighty Being is awake And doth with His eternal motion make A sound like thunder everlastingly.” WORDSWORTH....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יִרְעַ֣ם הַ֭ יָּם וּ מְלֹאֹ֑ו תֵּ֝בֵ֗ל וְ

  • 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

    _Cloud. As he did to Samuel in the night. (Berthier) --- Them. By their example, the psalmist insinuates, that priests in the new law shall pray for the people. (Worthington)_...

  • 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 SEA ROAR, AND THE FULNESS THEREOF,.... Psalms 96:11, THE WORLD, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN; men, the inhabitants of the world; that is, let them rejoice because this glorious King has taken...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Ver. 7. _See Trapp on "_ Psa 96:11 _"_...

  • 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

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let the sea roar and the fullness thereof, the roaring suiting the fullness of the sea, expressing the great volume of joyful sound which should arise in honor of Jehovah; THE WORLD, AND THEY THAT DWE...

  • 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

    THE FULNESS THEREOF; all those creatures wherewith it is replenished, which by a poetical strain are invited to praise God. SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 96:11", SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 96:12", SEE POOLE ON "PSAL...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 98:7 sea H3220 roar H7481 (H8799) fullness H4393 world H8398 dwell H3427 (H8802) Let -...

  • 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 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:

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 61:11; Psalms 96:11-9; Psalms 97:1...

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