Psalm 97:1 {96:1}
Good News Translation
The LORD is king! Earth, be glad! Rejoice, you islands of the seas!

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is King! Tell the earth to celebrate and all islands to shout.

New American Bible
The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.

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3000, B.C.

1004. Lord

Psalm 93:1 The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.

Psalm 96:10,11 Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice. . . .

Psalm 99:1 A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.

Obadiah 1:21 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south.

Matthew 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

Matthew 6:10,13 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. . . .

Mark 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh: Hosanna in the highest.

Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

Revelation 11:17 We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast and who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and thou hast reigned.

the earth

Psalm 2:11 Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

Psalm 98:4-6 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and sing. . . .

Isaiah 49:13 Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor ones.

Luke 2:10,11 And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people: . . .

let the multitude of isles.

Genesis 10:5 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 24:14-16 These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea. . . .

Isaiah 41:5 The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.

Isaiah 42:4,10-12 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law. . . .

Isaiah 49:1 Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name.

Isaiah 51:5 My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall patiently wait for my arm.

Isaiah 60:9 For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the beginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:

Zephaniah 2:11 The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.

Context
Let the Earth Rejoice
1For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.2Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.…
Cross References
Revelation 19:6
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunders, saying: Alleluia: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, hath reigned.

Psalm 72:10
The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:

Psalm 93:1
The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.

Psalm 96:10
Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.

Psalm 96:11
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof:

Psalm 99:1
A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.

Isaiah 42:10
Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them.

Isaiah 42:12
They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise in the islands.

Jeremiah 25:37
And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Psalm 96:13
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