Psalms 98:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

A Psalme. Sing vnto the Lord a newe song: for hee hath done marueilous things: his right hand, and his holy arme haue gotten him the victorie.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִזְמ֡וֹר שִׁ֤ירוּ לַֽיהוָ֨ה ׀ שִׁ֣יר חָ֭דָשׁ כִּֽי־נִפְלָא֣וֹת עָשָׂ֑ה הוֹשִֽׁיעָה־לּ֥וֹ יְ֝מִינ֗וֹ וּזְר֥וֹעַ קָדְשֽׁוֹ׃

Transliteration

Mizmōr shīrū to-YHWH shīr ḥādāsh because-niplāʾōt ʿāśāh hōshīʿāh-to-him yemīnō and-zerōaʿ qodshō

Grammar Details

• *Mizmōr*: noun, masculine singular construct - psalm/song
• *shīrū*: verb, qal imperative masculine plural - sing!
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *shīr*: noun, masculine singular construct - song
• *ḥādāsh*: adjective, masculine singular - new
• *niplāʾōt*: noun, feminine plural - wonders/marvelous deeds
• *ʿāśāh*: verb, qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he did/made
• *hōshīʿāh*: verb, hiphil perfect 3rd feminine singular - saved/delivered
• *yemīnō*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his right hand
• *zerōaʿ*: noun, feminine singular construct - arm
• *qodshō*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his holiness/holy

Word Meanings

• *Mizmōr*: psalm/melody/song
• *niplāʾōt*: wonders/marvelous works/miracles
• *hōshīʿāh*: brought salvation/delivered/saved
• *zerōaʿ*: arm/strength/power
• *qodshō*: his holiness/his sanctity/his holy one

Referenced Verses

• Exod 15:6 : 6 Thy right hande, O Lorde, is glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lorde, hath brused the enemie.
• Ps 96:1 : 1 Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song: sing vnto the Lord, all the earth.
• Isa 52:10 : 10 The Lorde hath made bare his holy arme in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our God.
• Ps 96:3 : 3 Declare his glory among all nations, and his wonders among all people.
• Ps 33:3 : 3 Sing vnto him a newe song: sing cheerefully with a loude voyce.
• Ps 45:3-5 : 3 Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie, to wit, thy worship and thy glory, 4 And prosper with thy glory: ride vpon the worde of trueth and of meekenes and of righteousnes: so thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee.
• Ps 77:14 : 14 Thou art ye God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people.
• Ps 86:10 : 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone.
• Exod 15:11 : 11 Who is like vnto thee, O Lord, among the Gods! Who is like thee so glorious in holinesse, fearefull in prayses, doing wonders!
• Ps 2:5-6 : 5 Then shall hee speake vnto them in his wrath, & vexe them in his sore displeasure, saying, 6 Euen I haue set my King vpon Zion mine holy mountaine.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 I wil also put enimitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seede & her seede. He shall breake thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
• Ps 105:5 : 5 Remember his marueilous woorkes, that he hath done, his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth,
• Ps 110:2-6 : 2 The Lorde shall send the rod of thy power out of Zion: be thou ruler in the middes of thine enemies. 3 Thy people shall come willingly at the time of assembling thine armie in holy beautie: the youth of thy wombe shalbe as the morning dewe. 4 The Lord sware & wil not repent, Thou art a Priest for euer after ye order of Melchi-zedek. 5 The Lorde, that is at thy right hand, shall wound Kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shalbe iudge among the heathen: he shall fill all with dead bodies, and smite the head ouer great countreis.
• Ps 136:4 : 4 Which onely doeth great wonders: for his mercie endureth for euer:
• Ps 139:14 : 14 I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well.
• Ps 149:1 : 1 Prayse ye the Lord. Sing ye vnto the Lorde a newe song: let his prayse be heard in the Congregation of Saints.
• Isa 42:10 : 10 Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song, and his praise from the ende of the earth: yee that goe downe to the sea, and all that is therein: the yles and the inhabitants thereof.
• Isa 43:18-20 : 18 Remember yee not the former things, neither regard the things of olde. 19 Behold, I do a new thing: now shal it come foorth: shall you not knowe it? I wil euen make a way in the desert, and floods in the wildernesse. 20 The wilde beastes shall honour mee, the dragons and the ostriches, because I gaue water in the desert, and floods in the wildernesse to giue drinke to my people, euen to mine elect.
• Isa 59:16 : 16 And when he sawe that there was no man, hee wondered that none woulde offer him selfe. Therefore his arme did saue it, and his righteousnes it selfe did sustaine it.
• Isa 63:5 : 5 And I looked, and there was none to helpe, and I wondered that there was none to vpholde: therefore mine owne arme helped me, and my wrath it selfe sustained me.
• Jer 31:22 : 22 How long wilt thou goe astray, O thou rebellious daughter? for the Lorde hath created a newe thing in the earth: A woman shall compasse a man.
• Luke 1:49 : 49 Because hee that is mightie, hath done for me great things, and holy is his Name.
• Luke 2:10-14 : 10 Then the Angel saide vnto them, Be not afraid: for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great ioy, that shalbe to all the people, 11 That is, that vnto you is borne this day in the citie of Dauid, a Sauiour, which is Christ the Lorde. 12 And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch. 13 And straightway there was with the Angel a multitude of heauenly souldiers, praising God, and saying, 14 Glory be to God in the high heauens, and peace in earth, and towards men good will.
• John 16:33 : 33 These thinges haue I spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace: in the world ye shall haue affliction, but be of good comfort: I haue ouercome the world.
• Acts 2:11 : 11 Creetes, and Arabians: wee hearde them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God.
• Acts 19:20 : 20 So the worde of God grewe mightily, and preuailed.
• Col 2:15 : 15 And hath spoyled the Principalities, and Powers, & hath made a shew of them openly, and hath triumphed ouer them in the same crosse.
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himselfe likewise tooke part with them, that hee might destroye through death, him that had the power of death, that is the deuil, 15 And that he might deliuer all them, which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage.
• Rev 3:21 : 21 To him that ouercommeth, will I graunt to sit with me in my throne, euen as I ouercame, and sit with my Father in his throne.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthie to take the Booke, and to open the seales thereof, because thou wast killed, and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood out of euery kinred, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• Rev 6:2 : 2 Therefore I behelde, & loe, there was a white horse, and hee that sate on him, had a bowe, and a crowne was giuen vnto him, and he went forth conquering that he might ouercome.
• Rev 14:3 : 3 And they sung as it were a newe song before the throne, and before the foure beasts, and the Elders: and no man could learne that song, but the hundreth, fourtie and foure thousand, which were bought from the earth.
• Rev 15:3-4 : 3 And they sung the song of Moses the seruant of God, & the song of the Lambe, saying, Great and marueilous are thy workes, Lord God almightie: iust and true are thy wayes, King of Saints. 4 Who shall not feare thee, O Lord, and glorifie thy Name! for thou onely art holy, and all nations shall come and worship before thee: for thy iudgements are made manifest.
• Rev 17:14 : 14 These shall fight with the Lambe, and the Lambe shall ouercome them: for he is Lorde of Lordes, and King of Kings: and they that are on his side, called, and chosen, and faithfull.
• Rev 19:11-21 : 11 And I sawe heauen open, and behold, a white horse, and he that sate vpon him, was called, Faithfull and true, and he iudgeth & fighteth righteously. 12 And his eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crownes: and he had a name written, that no man knewe but himselfe. 13 And he was clothed with a garment dipt in blood, and his name is called The worde of God. 14 And the hostes which werein heauen, followed him vpon white horses, clothed with fine linnen white and pure. 15 And out of his mouth went out a sharpe sworde, that with it he should smite the heathen: for he shall rule them with a rod of yron: for he it is that treadeth the wine presse of the fiercenesse and wrath of almightie God. 16 And he hath vpon his garment, and vpon his thigh a name written, The King of Kings, and Lord of Lordes. 17 And I sawe an Angel stand in the sunne, who cryed with a loude voyce, saying to all the foules that did flie by the middes of heauen, Come, and gather your selues together vnto the supper of ye great God, 18 That ye may eate the flesh of Kings, and the flesh of hie Captaines, and the flesh of mightie men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all freemen, and bondmen, and of small and great. 19 And I sawe the beast, and the Kings of the earth, and their hostes gathered together to make battell against him that sate on the horse, and against his armie. 20 But ye beast was taken, & with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, whereby he deceiued them that receiued ye beastes marke, and them that worshipped his image. These both were aliue cast into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone. 21 And the remnant were slayne with the sword of him that sitteth vpon the horse, which commeth out of his mouth, and all the foules were filled full with their flesh.