Psalms 97:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 97:1

The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

KJV

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ASV

Jehovah reigneth; let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad.

WEB

The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the distant shores be glad.

YLT

Jehovah hath reigned, The earth is joyful, many isles rejoice.

DBT

Jehovah reigneth: let the earth be glad, let the many isles rejoice.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 96:10–11
Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
1 Chronicles 29:11
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Psalms 2:11
Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psalms 99:1
The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
Psalms 93:1
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

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The Lord Jesus reigns; the providential kingdom is twisted in with the mediatorial and the administration of both is in the hand of Christ, who therefore is both the head of the church and head over all things to the church. The kingdom of Christ is so constituted that, I.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

) is, Let the earth rejoice; but it is only the sons of Zion and the daughters of Judah that do rejoice. All should bid the kingdom of the Messiah welcome, but few do. The reasons that are given for Zion's joy in the government of the Redeemer.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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