A call to praise the Lord for His righteousness – for He is coming to judge the earth and the peoples with equity! In worrying times of pandemics and violence, this Psalm is both prophetic and comforting…
The King is coming!
Psalm 98
Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.
The LORD has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises.
Sing to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of a psalm,
With trumpets and the sound of a horn; shout joyfully before the LORD, the King.
Let the sea roar, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell in it; Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful together before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth.
With righteousness He shall judge the world, and the peoples with equity.
Psalm 98:1-9
The best and most beautiful hymns are founded on Scripture. Here’s one based on Psalm 98 from Charles Spurgeon’s Own Hymn Book:
Sing to the Lord a new-made song,
Who wondrous things has done;
With His right hand and holy arm
The conquest He has won.
The Lord has through th’ astonished world
Display’d His saving might
And made His righteous acts appear
In all the heathens’ sight.
Of Israel’s house His love and truth
Have ever mindful been;
Wide earth’s remotest parts the pow’r
Of Israel’s God have seen.
Let therefore earth’s inhabitants
Their cheerful voices raise,
And all with universal joy
Resound their Maker’s praise.
Clap, clap your hands, ye rolling floods,
And toss your waves on high;
And all ye hills, with all your woods,
Shout to the echoing sky.
Jehovah comes, He takes His state,
He comes to judge mankind:
On His high throne shall justice wait,
And truth His sentence bind.
(Tate and Brady)
Maranatha!
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