“ Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: ”
Make a joyful noise unto God - literally, “Shout.” It is a call for exultation and praise. All ye lands - Margin, as in Hebrew, all the earth. The occasion was one that made universal exultat...
"To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm." Make a joyful noise unto God, (a) all ye lands: (a) He prophecies that all nations will come to the knowledge of God, who then was only known in Judea.
LXVI. A and LXVI. B. Here again we have two Pss., rather unskilfully joined together, for the former ends, the latter begins abruptly. In Psalms 66 A ( Psalms 66:1-12 ) the speaker always uses the...
Title. Song. Hebrew. shir . See App-65. Psalm. Hebrew. mizmor. See App-65. ye lands . the earth; earth being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for its inhabitants.
1. Shout unto God, all the earth The psalm begins with this general declaration, which is afterwards reduced to particulars. (467) He addresses himself to the whole world, and from this it...
To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm. Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Make a joyfull noise - Sing aloud to God, all ye lands - all ye people who, from different parts of the Babylonis...
David exhorteth to praise God, to observe his great works, to bless him for his gracious benefits: he voweth for himself religious service to God: he declareth God's special goodness to himself....
Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Psalms 66:1-20 .-Thanksgiving for deliverance. All the earth is invited to praise God for the marvels performed for His people ( Psalms 66:1-4 ); t...
This Ps. triumphantly celebrates a great national deliverance. The whole earth is summoned to join in the chorus of praise ( Psalms 66:1-4 ). The memories of the exodus are recalled ( Psalms 66:5-7 )...
Make a joyful noise. — Better, sing aloud, or shout. All ye lands. — The margin is better.
Psalms 66:1-20 THE most striking feature of this psalm is the transition from the plural "we" and "our," in Psalms 66:1-12 , to the singular "I" and "my," in Psalms 66:13-20 . Ewald supposes tha...
“Come and See the Works of God” Psalms 66:1-15 Some of the old expositors speak of this psalm as “the Lord's Prayer in the Old Testament.” A summons to praise, Psalms 66:1-4 The devout so...
This is one of the most beautiful of the songs of worship. It is divided into two parts by a change from the use of the plural pronoun (verses Psa 66:1-12) to the use of the singular (verses Psa 66:1...
CONTENTS Here we have a song of praise, both for the public mercies of God to his church, and the private manifestations of the same to every individual of it. To the chief musician, A Song 1-8 I...
Make a joyful noise unto God ,.... The Creator of the ends of the earth; the Provider for all his creatures; and the Dispenser of the blessings of grace, under the Gospel dispensation, to men in all...
Psalms 66:1 «To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm. » Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Ver. 1. Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands ] Heb. All the earth; shout aloud for joy,...
Make a joyful noise, &c. all ye lands Ye people of all nations, who have seen the wonderful power, wisdom, goodness, and faithfulness of God manifested in our deliverance, it becomes you to ack...
All Mankind Exhorted to Praise God. To the chief musician. A song or psalm. 1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye...
PSALM 66 THE ARGUMENT The author and time of the composing of this Psalm are uncertain. This is manifest, and sufficient for our understanding of it. That it was made upon the occasion of some grea...
Heading. ‘For the Chief Musician. A Song, a Psalm.' This Psalm is dedicated to the Chief Musician or Choirmaster. It probably indicates that it has been adapted for Temple worship. It is describe...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician .” See Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Psalm or Song . See Introduction to Psalms 48 . Both the author and the occasion of the psalm are unk...
Psalms 66:1 . Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Let not Israel alone do it. Take up the strain, ye nations. He is the God of all the nations of the earth. «Make a joyful noise unto God,...
This in the Greek is called a psalm of the resurrection, no doubt because God had in David's time revived the nation. The application to the captivity is unsupported by the language of joy. David her...
Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands. Providence The real theme of this psalm is in the last section: it is a psalm of thanksgiving for a special mercy experienced by an individual. But t...
EXPOSITION THIS is another song of thanksgiving, and is connected with a special deliverance ( Psalms 66:10-19 ). The composer is about to offer a sacrifice to God in his holy place, in perfor...
Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands, the call being so general as to include all the inhabitants of the world.
1 Chronicles 15:28 ; 1 Chronicles 16:23 ; 1 Chronicles 16:24 ; Isaiah 24:16 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 81:1 ; Psalms 9:1 ; Psalms 96:1
All lands — Ye people of all nations. He invites the Gentile world, to the contemplation and celebration of God's works.