The Psalmist exhorteth the Jews, the Gentiles, and all creatures, to praise God.
A Psalm.
This psalm has several expressions like those which are used in Psalms 1 96: and therefore probably it was composed by David. The Greek copies call it, "A Psalm of David." Perhaps it was written upon occasion of some remarkable deliverance which God had lately granted to Israel, as an earnest of future blessings; especially of the coming of that great blessing, the Lord Christ, to give salvation to his faithful people. Grotius is of opinion, that this psalm is a kind of summary or abridgement of Moses's song in Exodus 15.
Psalms 98:1. Hath gotten him the victory— Hath brought him salvation. This in the strictest letter belongs to the prophetic sense, accomplished in the resurrection of Christ. For then, in an eminent manner, did the divine power, called God's right hand, and God's fidelity in making good his promise, fitly stiled his holy arm, bring him, that is Christ, relief; in raising his dead body out of the grave. See Dr. Hammond.