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Psalm 98 — Sermon Preparation
A new-song psalm celebrating God's marvelous victory made known to all nations, with sea, rivers, and hills joining the chorus. Below is a research summary for Psalm 98, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 9
- verses
- 75 / 55
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 98 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| תֵּבֵל | têbêl | H8398 | 2 | earth, moist |
| כִּנּוֹר | kinnôwr | H3658 | 2 | harp |
| רוּעַ | rûwaʻ | H7321 | 2 | mar, split |
| זָמַר | zâmar | H2167 | 2 | touch, play |
| רָנַן | rânan | H7442 | 2 | creak, shout |
| יְשׁוּעָה | yᵉshûwʻâh | H3444 | 2 | saved, deliverance |
| שִׁיר | shîyr | H7891 | 2 | song, singing |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 98, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This psalm is to the same purport with the two foregoing psalms; it is a prophecy of the kingdom of the Messiah, the settling of it up in the world, and the bringing of the Gentiles into it. The Chaldee entitles it a prophetic psalm. It sets forth, I. The glory of the Redeemer, ver. 1-3. II. The joy of the redeemed, ver. 4-9. If we in a right manner give to Christ this glory, and upon right grounds take to ourselves this joy, in singing this psalm, we sing it with understanding. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 98:1–30 (Public Domain)
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