O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
All Commentaries on Psalms 96:1 Go To Psalms 96
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
When the house was built Alluding to that time, and then ordered to be sung; but principally relating to the building of the Church of Christ, after our redemption from the captivity of satan. (Challoner)
Captivity. The greater canticle of David, (1 Paralipomenon xvi.) was probably divided, on that occasion, (Calmet) into three. This forms the second part, from ver. 23; as the psalm civ., to ver. 16., does the first. The three last verses of David's canticle, (ver. 34.) occur Psalm cv. 1, 47. But in reality, there are so many variations, that it seems most probable, (Haydock) that he revised that work, and left us the three psalms in their present form. This perhaps relates to the establishment of the Church, though it might be also sung at the return from Babylon. (Berthier)
Modern Jews understand it of their future re-union under the Messias. (Kimchi) (Calmet)
The rebuilding of the temple is foretold, as a figure of man's redemption. (Worthington)
New canticle. As the blessed do, (Apocalypse v. 9., and xv. 4.) and those who receive the Messias, Isaias xlii. 10. (Berthier)
Love sings the new canticle. (St. Augustine)
Earth. And not Judea alone, ver. 7. (Berthier)
