1 A Psalm of David. The Lord reigns;—let the people rage; [it is he] that sits upon the cherubs, let the earth be moved. 2 The Lord is great in Sion, and is high over all the people. 3 Let them give thanks to thy great name; for it is terrible and holy. 4 And the king's honour loves judgment; thou hast prepared equity, thou hast wrought judgment and justice in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship [at] his footstool; for he is holy. 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he heard them. 7 He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the ordinances which he gave them. 8 O Lord our God, thou heardest them; O God, thou becamest propitious to them, though thou didst take vengeance on all their devices. 9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.
Psalms · Brenton's English Septuagint
Psalm 98 (99) Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (3)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (9)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in Brenton.
- 1 Exodus 25:22; Psalm 97:1; Psalm 93:1; Psalm 97:4; Psalm 80:1
- 2 Psalm 97:9; Isaiah 14:32; Psalm 50:2; Psalm 66:7; Isaiah 12:6
- 3 Isaiah 6:3; Deuteronomy 28:58; Revelation 15:3–4; Psalm 111:9; John 17:11
- 4 Jeremiah 23:5; Psalm 11:7; Job 36:5–7; Psalm 45:6–7; Deuteronomy 32:3–4
- 5 Psalm 132:7; Isaiah 66:1; Psalm 108:5; Psalm 34:3; Exodus 15:2
- 6 Jeremiah 15:1; Exodus 24:6–8; Exodus 15:25; Exodus 14:15; 1 Samuel 7:9–12
- 7 Exodus 33:9; Numbers 12:5; Deuteronomy 4:5; 1 John 3:21–22; Exodus 19:9
- 8 Numbers 20:12; Psalm 89:33; Jeremiah 46:28; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Deuteronomy 9:19–20
- 9 Luke 1:49; Revelation 4:8; Isaiah 5:16; Isaiah 57:15; 1 Peter 1:15–16
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 99.
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
(ver. 1). The new man knoweth this, the old man knoweth it not. The old man is the old life, and the new man the new life: the old life is derived from Adam, the new life is formed in Christ. But in this Psalm, the whole world is enjoined to sing a new song.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
And those who said, "The Lord hath reigned; let the people be enraged: [even] He who sitteth upon the cherubim; let the earth be moved," were thus predicting partly that wrath from all nations which after His ascension came upon those who believed in Him, with the movement of the whole earth against the Church; and partly the fact that, …