Psalms 99:1-7

Praise to the LORD for His Fidelity to Israel.

1 ¹The LORD reigns, let the peoples tremble; He ²is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake!

2 The LORD is ³great in Zion, And He is ⁴exalted above all the peoples.

3 Let them praise Your ⁵great and awesome name; ⁶Holy is He.

4 The strength of the King ⁷loves justice; You have established ⁸equity; You have ⁹executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

5 ¹⁰Exalt the LORD our God And ¹¹worship at His footstool *; ¹²Holy is He.

6 ¹³Moses and Aaron were among His ¹⁴priests, And ¹⁵Samuel was among those who ¹⁶called on His name; They ¹⁷called upon the LORD and He answered them.

7 He ¹⁸spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; They ¹⁹kept His testimonies And the statute that He gave them.

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Psalms 99:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 99

This psalm, with the foregoing from Ps 90:1 is ascribed to Moses by Jarchi and others; but cannot be his, since mention is made of Samuel in it, who lived many years after him. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, more rightly attribute it to David; the inscription of the Syriac version, after saying it is David's, subjoins,

``concerning the destruction of the Midianites, whom Moses and the people of Israel led captive;''

of which there is not the least mention in it; but it more truly adds,

``and a prophecy concerning the glory of the kingdom of the Messiah;''

as it undoubtedly is.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 19

1. Psalms 97:1
2. Exodus 25:22; 1 Samuel 4:4; Psalms 80:1
3. Psalms 48:1; Isaiah 12:6
4. Psalms 97:9; Psalms 113:4
5. Deuteronomy 28:58; Psalms 76:1
6. Leviticus 19:2; Joshua 24:19; 1 Samuel 2:2; Psalms 22:3; Isaiah 6:3
7. Psalms 11:7; Psalms 33:5
8. Psalms 17:2; Psalms 98:9
9. Psalms 103:6; Psalms 146:7; Jeremiah 23:5
10. Psalms 34:3; Psalms 107:32; Psalms 118:28
11. Psalms 132:7
12. Psalms 99:3
13. Jeremiah 15:1
14. Exodus 24:6-8; Exodus 29:26; Exodus 40:23-27; Leviticus 8:1-30
15. Jeremiah 15:1
16. 1 Samuel 7:9; 1 Samuel 12:18; Psalms 22:4, 5
17. Exodus 15:25; Exodus 32:30-34
18. Exodus 33:9; Numbers 12:5
19. Psalms 105:28

Footnotes 8

[a]. Lit "sits"
[b]. Or "in Zion is great"
[c]. Or "it"
[d]. Or "You have established in equity the strength of the King who loves justice"
[e]. Or "judgment"
[f]. Or "uprightness"
[g]. Or "judgment"
[h]. The verb is plural