Mazmur 96:1-2

Psalm 96 ¹ 

96:1 Sing to the Lord a new song! ² 

Sing to the Lord, all the earth!

96:2 Sing to the Lord! Praise his name!

Announce every day how he delivers! ³ 

Mazmur 117:1-2

Psalm 117 ⁴ 

117:1 Praise the Lord, all you nations!

Applaud him, all you foreigners! ⁵ 

117:2 For his loyal love towers ⁶  over us,

and the Lord’s faithfulness endures.

Praise the Lord!

Mazmur 149:1-3

Psalm 149 ⁷ 

149:1 Praise the Lord!

Sing to the Lord a new song!

Praise him in the assembly of the godly! ⁸ 

149:2 Let Israel rejoice in their Creator!

Let the people ⁹  of Zion delight in their king! ¹⁰ 

149:3 Let them praise his name with dancing!

Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!

[96:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 96. The psalmist summons everyone to praise the Lord, the sovereign creator of the world who preserves and promotes justice in the earth.

[96:1]  ² sn A new song is appropriate because the Lord is constantly intervening in the world as its just king. See also Pss 33:3; 40:3; 98:1.

[96:2]  ³ tn Heb “announce from day to day his deliverance.”

[117:1]  ⁴ sn Psalm 117. The psalmist tells the nations to praise the Lord for his loyal love and faithfulness.

[117:1]  ⁵ tn Or “peoples” (see Ps 108:3).

[117:2]  ⁶ tn For this sense of the Hebrew verb גָּבַר (gavar), see Ps 103:11 and L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.

[149:1]  ⁷ sn Psalm 149. The psalmist calls upon God’s people to praise him because he is just and avenges them.

[149:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “his praise in the assembly of the godly ones.”

[149:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons.”

[149:2]  ¹⁰ sn The Lord is the king here, as the parallelism in the previous line (“their creator”) indicates.