Psalm 97

Psalm 97
"The Lord is King"
Hymn psalm
Psalm 97 in the Psalter of Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca. 1185)
Other name
  • Psalm 96 (Vulgate)
  • "Dominus regnavit exultet terra"
LanguageHebrew (original)
Psalm 97
BookBook of Psalms
Hebrew Bible partKetuvim
Order in the Hebrew part1
CategorySifrei Emet
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part19

Psalm 97 is the 97th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English of the King James Version: "The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice", also as "The Lord is King".[1] The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible,[2] and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In Latin, it is known as "Dominus regnavit exultet terra".[3] The psalm is a hymn psalm;[4] the Jerusalem Bible calls it an "eschatological hymn".[5]

In the slightly different numbering system in the Greek Septuagint version of the bible and in the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 96.

The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. It has often been set to music, notably by Otto Nicolai as a German motet, and by Antonín Dvořák, who set it in Czech in his Biblical Songs.

  1. ^ For example, in the International Standard Version: Psalm 97
  2. ^ Mazor 2011, p. 589.
  3. ^ Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 96 (97) Archived 7 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine medievalist.net
  4. ^ Pankhurst 2018.
  5. ^ Jerusalem Bible (1966), Footnote a for Psalm 98