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The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad! See also: Psalms 96:10-11 Psalms 99:1 Colossians 1:13Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. See also: Psalms 89:14 Exodus 19:9 Proverbs 16:12A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. See also: Psalms 50:3 Hebrews 12:29 Psalms 18:8His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. See also: Revelation 11:19 Psalms 77:18 Exodus 19:16-18The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. See also: Nahum 1:5 Micah 1:3-4 Isaiah 24:19-20The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory. See also: Isaiah 66:18 Psalms 19:1 Psalms 50:6Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods! See also: Jeremiah 10:14 Hebrews 1:6 Isaiah 42:17Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, LORD. See also: Psalms 48:11 Revelation 18:20 Zechariah 9:9For you, LORD, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods. See also: Psalms 95:3 Exodus 18:11 Psalms 83:18You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. See also: Proverbs 8:13 Romans 12:9 Psalms 34:14Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. See also: John 12:46 James 5:7-11 Proverbs 4:18Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name. See also: Psalms 30:4 Philippians 4:4 Psalms 32:11

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 96

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

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PSALM XCVI. (DOMINUS REGNAVIT.)

All are invited to rejoice at the glorious coming and reign of Christ.

Psalms 96:1

Ver. 1. Same. Huic. The title is the same as usual in the Sept. M. --- It occurs not in Heb. The psalm may refer to David's establishment on the throne, after the death of Saul, or Absalom, or to the return from captivity, and to the first and second coming of Christ. C. --- This last seems to be the most literal sense.

Bert. --- To him. Christ's body on the third day, and many souls were restored to life. --- Islands. We have great reason to rejoice in being educated in the true faith, and we may hope that the Catholic religion will once more flourish in these isles. W. --- The Son of man shall have dominion over all. Dan. vii. 14. His Church is persecuted, as the waves beat against an island. Euseb. C.

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Psalms 96:2

Ver. 2. Clouds. We could not bear the blaze of the divine majesty. Ps. xvii. 12.

Christ veiled himself in our human nature, (Theod.) in the womb of the blessed Virgin. S. Jer. C. --- God gave the law with terror; and so he will come to judge with integrity. W.

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Psalms 96:3

Ver. 3. A fire. Preceding the last judgment. 2 Pet. iii. 12. Dan. vii. 10. Wisd. v. 22.

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Psalms 96:5

Ver. 5. All. Which is conformable to the Heb. &c. though the Vulg. terra, means,

"all the earth"

melted. H.

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Psalms 96:6

Ver. 6. Heavens. Apostles. Ps. xviii. The judge appears publicly. C.

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Psalms 96:7

Ver. 7. Idols. Heb. Elilim. Ps. xcv. 5. H. --- Angels. Heb. Elohim, means also, all who have power. Chal. "idols." S. Paul, (Heb. i. 6.) quotes this in the third person; Let all the angels, (C.) or rather he alludes to the Sept. (Deut. xxxii. 43.) which clearly speaks of the Messias, and may therefore have been altered in the Heb. text, which S. Jerom translated. The psalmist expresses the same idea as Moses had done. Bert. --- Both those who adore idols of their own imagination, and their graven things, are condemned. W.

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Psalms 96:9

Ver. 9. Gods. Princes or angels, elohim, v. 7. H.

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Psalms 96:11

Ver. 11. Light. Prosperity. The Babylonians are punished. C.

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Psalms 96:12

Ver. 12. Holiness. Or sanctuary. Praise for ever his adorable name, (C.) since he is holiness itself, and sanctifies others. W.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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