4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
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4 For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods.
4 For great `is' Jehovah, and praised greatly, Fearful He `is' over all gods.
4 For Jehovah is great and exceedingly to be praised; he is terrible above all gods.
4 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods.
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
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Commentary on Psalms 96 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 96
This psalm is part of that which was delivered into the hand of Asaph and his brethren (1 Chr. 16:7), by which it appears both that David was the penman of it and that it has reference to the bringing up of the ark to the city of David; whether that long psalm was made first, and this afterwards taken out of it, or this made first and afterwards borrowed to make up that, is not certain. But this is certain, that, though it was sung at the translation of the ark, it looks further, to the kingdom of Christ, and is designed to celebrate the glories of that kingdom, especially the accession of the Gentiles to it. Here is,
In singing this psalm we ought to have our hearts filed with great and high thoughts of the glory of God and the grace of the gospel, and with an entire satisfaction in Christ's sovereign dominion and in the expectation of the judgment to come.
Psa 96:1-9
These verses will be best expounded by pious and devout affections working in our souls towards God, with a high veneration for his majesty and transcendent excellency. The call here given us to praise God is very lively, the expressions are raised and repeated, to all which the echo of a thankful heart should make agreeable returns.
Psa 96:10-13
We have here instructions given to those who were to preach the gospel to the nations what to preach, or to those who had themselves received the gospel what account to give of it to their neighbours, what to say among the heathen; and it is an illustrious prophecy of the setting up of the kingdom of Christ upon the ruins of the devil's kingdom, which began immediately after his ascension and will continue in the doing till the mystery of God be finished.