Psalms 97:1
A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, and his arm is holy.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Psalmus ipsi David. Cantate Domino canticum novum, quia mirabilia fecit. Salvavit sibi dextera ejus, et brachium sanctum ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυείδ. ᾌσατε τῷ κυρίῳ ᾆσμα καινόν, ὅτι θαυμαστὰ ἐποίησεν Κύριος· ἔσωσεν αὐτῷ ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ βραχίων ὁ ἅγιος αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 98:1
- מִזְמ֡וֹר שִׁ֤ירוּ לַֽיהוָ֨ה שִׁ֣יר חָ֭דָשׁ כִּֽי נִפְלָא֣וֹת עָשָׂ֑ה הוֹשִֽׁיעָה לּ֥וֹ יְ֝מִינ֗וֹ וּזְר֥וֹעַ קָדְשֽׁוֹ
Haydock's commentary
David. His name occurs not in Hebrew, though the psalm is worthy of him. (Berthier)
It may refer to the return from captivity, as a figure of the world's redemption.
Things. In rescuing his people from slavery, and in the incarnation. (Calmet)
For him. Or alone. (Menochius)
Christ raised himself by his own power. (Calmet) (Isaias lxii. 5.)
He redeemed mankind for his own glory, sibi. (Berthier)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCVIII
1. “O sing unto the Lord a new song” ( ver. 1 ). The new man knoweth this, the old man knoweth it not. The old man is the old life, and the new man the new life: the old life is derived from Adam, the new life is formed in Christ. But in this Psalm, the whole world is enjoined to sing a new song. More openly elsewhere the words are these: “O sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, all the whole earth;” that they who cut themselves off from the communion of the whole earth, may understand that they cannot sing the new song, because it is sung in the whole, and not in a part of it. Attend here also, and see that this is said. And when the whole earth is enjoined to sing a new song, it is meant, that peace singeth a new song. “For He hath done marvelous things.” What marvelous things? Behold, the Gospel was just now being read, and we heard the marvellous things of the Lord. …
Eusebius The Church History of Eusebius, The Peace granted us by God
3. “Sing unto the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm hath saved him. The Lord hath made known his salvation, his righteousness hath he revealed in the presence of the nations.”