| Psalm 96 | |
|---|---|
| "Sing a new song unto the Lord" | |
| Royal psalm | |
 Beginning of Cantate Domino in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy, 1477 | |
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| Related | |
| Language | Hebrew (original) |
| Psalm 96 | |
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← Psalm 95 Psalm 97 → | |
 Beginning of Psalm 96 in German at a church in Feldkirchen in Kärnten, Austria | |
| Book | Book of Psalms |
| Hebrew Bible part | Ketuvim |
| Order in the Hebrew part | 1 |
| Category | Sifrei Emet |
| Christian Bible part | Old Testament |
| Order in the Christian part | 19 |
Psalm 96 is the 96th psalm of the Book of Psalms, a hymn. The first verse of the psalm calls to praise in singing, in English in the King James Version: "O sing a new song unto the Lord". Similar to Psalm 98 ("Cantate Domino") and Psalm 149, the psalm calls to praise God in music and dance, because he has chosen his people and helped them to victory. It is one of the royal psalms praising God as the King of His people.
In the slightly different numbering system used by the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 95. In Latin, it is known as "Cantate Domino canticum novum".[1]
The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican liturgies. The Latin conclusion, "Laetentur caeli", is used during the Christmas night liturgy. The psalm or verses of it have been paraphrased to hymns, and it has often been set to music, notably by Handel in his Chandos Anthems, by Mendelssohn who quoted from it in a movement of his choral symphony Lobgesang, and Zoltán Gárdonyi as part of three motets.
Incipit: "O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth." (KJV; in Hebrew שירו ליהוה שיר חדש שירו ליהוה כל־הארץ).[2][3]
- ^ Parallel Latin/English Psalter, Psalmus 95 (96). Archived 2017-05-07 at the Wayback Machine Medievalist.
- ^ "Psalm 96:1 Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth". biblehub.com.
- ^ "TanakhML Project. Text Browser. BHS". www.tanakhml.org.