Psalm 98
Psalm 98 is a jubilant song of praise, calling on humanity and the natural world alike to rejoice in God’s presence and justice, as voices, instruments, rivers, and mountains join together in celebration.
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Transliteration / Hebrew
Shiru ladonai shir hadash, ki nifla-ot asah, hoshi-ah lo y’mino u-z’ro-a kodsho.
Hodia Adonai y’shu ato, l’einei ha-goyim gilah tzidkato.
Zakhar hasdo ve-emunato l’veit yisrael, rau khol afsei aretz et y’shuat eloheinu.
Hariu ladonai kol ha-aretz, pitz-hu v’ran’nu v’zameiru.
Zamru ladonai b’khinor, b’khinor v’kol zimrah.
Ba-hatzotz’rot v’kol shofar
hariu lifnei ha-melekh Adonai.
Yiram hayam u-m’lo-o, teiveil v’yosh vei vah.
N’harot yimhau khaf, yahad harim y’raneinu.
Lifnei Adonai ki va lishpot ha-aretz, yishpot teiveil b’tzedek v’amim b’meisharim.
מִזְמוֹר שִׁירוּ לַיהֹוָה שִׁיר חָדָשׁ כִּי־נִפְלָאוֹת עָשָׂה הוֹשִׁיעָה־לּוֹ יְמִינוֹ וּזְרוֹעַ קָדְשׁוֹ:
הוֹדִיעַ יְהֹוָה יְשׁוּעָתוֹ לְעֵינֵי הַגּוֹיִם גִּלָּה צִדְקָתוֹ:
זָכַר חַסְדּוֹ וֶאֱמוּנָתוֹ לְבֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל רָאוּ כָל־אַפְסֵי־אָרֶץ אֵת יְשׁוּעַת אֱלֹהֵינוּ:
הָרִיעוּ לַיהֹוָה כָּל־הָאָרֶץ פִּצְחוּ וְרַנְּנוּ וְזַמֵּרוּ:
זַמְּרוּ לַיהֹוָה בְּכִנּוֹר בְּכִנּוֹר וְקוֹל זִמְרָה:
בַּחֲצֹצְרוֹת וְקוֹל שׁוֹפָר הָרִיעוּ לִפְנֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ יְהֹוָה:
יִרְעַם הַיָּם וּמְלֹאוֹ תֵּבֵל וְישְׁבֵי בָהּ:
נְהָרוֹת יִמְחֲאוּ־כָף יַחַד הָרִים יְרַנֵּנוּ:
לִפְנֵי־יְהֹוָה כִּי בָא לִשְׁפֹּט הָאָרֶץ יִשְׁפֹּט־תֵּבֵל בְּצֶדֶק וְעַמִּים בְּמֵישָׁרִים:
Translation (Lev Shalem)
SING TO ADONAI a new song; sing to ADONAI, all the earth; sing to ADONAI, praise God’s name; day after day, tell of God’s deliverance.
Tell the nations of God’s glory; speak of God’s wonders among all peoples.
For ADONAI is great, surely to be praised, more revered than other gods.
For the gods of the nations are man-made idols, but ADONAI fashioned the very heavens.
Grandeur and glory are God’s honor guard, strength and joy where God is found.
Offer to Adonal, peoples of the world, offer to ADONAI honor and strength.
Offer to ADONAI the honor due God’s name, bring a gift of thanksgiving and enter God’s presence.
Bow to ADONAI in the glory of this holy place; tremble before God’s presence, all who dwell on earth.
Announce among the nations, “ADONAI reigns”-the land is firm and will not be moved; peoples will be truthfully judged.
The heavens shall be glad and the earth rejoice, the sea in its fullness roar;
the meadows and all that grows in them exult.
Even the trees of the forest shall sing praise—
as ADONAI comes,
comes to judge the earth,
judging lands with righteousness and peoples with divine truth.