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**XCVIII.**
This psalm plainly belongs to that cycle of literature produced by the joy of the Restoration, and is in fact little more than a compilation from [Isaiah 40:26](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/26), and from other psalms, especially [Psalms 96](../../../kjv/psalms/96). The psalm is irregular in form.
*Title.*—This is the only hymn of the whole collection with the bare inscription “a psalm.”

(1) **Victory.**—The word more commonly rendered “salvation,” as, indeed, in next verse.

(4) **Make a joyful noise.**—Better, *Break out into songs and music.
*

(5) **Sing . . .**—Rather, *Play to Jehovah on a harp. on a harp, and with melodious sound of music.
*

(6) **Trumpets . . . cornet.**—(See [Numbers 10:2](../../../kjv/numbers/10/2); [Exodus 19:16](../../../kjv/exodus/19/16); and *Bible Educator,*ii. 231, 232.) This is the only place in the psalm where the *chatsotsereh,*or “straight trumpet” is mentioned.

(7) See [Psalms 96:11](../../../kjv/psalms/96/11).
“Listen! the mighty Being is awake
And doth with His eternal motion make
A sound like thunder everlastingly.”
WORDSWORTH.

(8) **Clap their hands.**—This expression, descriptive of the lapping sound of waves, occurs also in [Isaiah 55:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/55/12).
**Let the hills be joyful together.**—
“Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder! Not from one long cloud,
But every mountain now hath found a tongue,
And Jura answers through her misty shroud
Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud.”
BYRON: *Childe Harold,*canto iii.

(9) See [Psalms 96:13](../../../kjv/psalms/96/13).

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