Psalm 96

Sing to Yahweh, All the Earth// 1 Chronicles 16:23–36

¹Sing to Yahweh a new song;

sing to Yahweh, all the earth.

²Sing to Yahweh, bless His name;

proclaim His salvation day after day.

³Declare His glory among the nations,

His wonders among all peoples.

⁴For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised;

He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the nations are idols,

but it is Yahweh who made the heavens.

• PS 96:5[DEMONIC]The gods of the nations are idols

⁶Splendor and majesty are before Him;

strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe to Yahweh, O families of the nations,

ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

⁸Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due His name;

bring an offering and enter His courts.

⁹Worship Yahweh in the splendor of His holiness;

tremble before Him, all the earth.

¹⁰Declare among the nations: “Yahweh reigns!”

The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved;

He will judge the peoples with equity.

• PS 96:10[TEXT]FROM THE TREE. Justin Martyr, about 150 AD, quoted this verse as The Lord reigns from the tree, and said the Jews had cut out those words. No Hebrew copy has it, and the main Greek copies do not either. A few later Greek and Latin copies and an old Coptic version do. The Latin hymn Vexilla Regis sings it.

¹¹Let the heavens be glad

and the earth rejoice;

let the sea resound,

and all that fills it.

¹²Let the fields exult,

and all that is in them.

Then all the trees of the forest

will sing for joy ¹³before Yahweh,

for He is coming—

He is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

and the peoples in His faithfulness.

• PS 96:13[PROPHECY]Yahweh is coming to judge the world in righteousness → STILL TO COMEMEDIUM