Psalm 96 Bible study: Say among the nations

Psalm 96 has no title. Its first words are a call: "Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth" (96:1), and "Sing to the LORD! Bless his name!" (96:2) (tap new). That is Sing to the LORD three times. The psalm gives its reasons with For: "For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised!" (96:4), and "For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens" (96:5). Then the call comes again, three times over: "Ascribe to the LORD, you families of nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength" (96:7), and "Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name" (96:8) (tap Ascribe). In Hebrew each of the three calls to sing is the same two words, the verb and to the LORD, and so is each of the three calls to ascribe.

Psalms 96:3→leads toMark 13:10

As Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately (Mark 13:3), and among his answers was this: "The Good News must first be preached to all the nations" (Mark 13:10). The psalm calls, "Proclaim his salvation from day to day! Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples" (Psalm 96:2-3), and "Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.”" (Psalm 96:10). Jesus doesn't name Psalm 96, and Mark doesn't point to it, so setting the two together is a reading. It rests on a shared subject, word of what God has done carried to all the nations, not on the English words Good News, which the WEB's psalm doesn't use, and no link between the Hebrew and the Greek is claimed. One reading hears in Jesus's words the psalm's call taken up: what God has done told among all the nations. Another keeps each in its own setting: the psalm's call is to sing to the LORD and to tell his salvation and glory among the nations (Psalm 96:1-3); Jesus tells four disciples what must come first, among warnings of what they will face (Mark 13:9, 13:11), and doesn't point to this psalm. These notes don't choose between them, and this line doesn't make the psalm's "he comes to judge the earth" (Psalm 96:13) about any day or event.

בָּשַׂרbasarsay ba-SAR

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "bear tidings", and "herald as glad tidings". Strong's: "to announce (glad news)". "Sing to the LORD! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!" (96:2): Proclaim is this verb, the command bassru. The Psalms have it three times in Hebrew. The others are "I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly" (Psalm 40:9), and "The ones who proclaim it are a great company" (Psalm 68:11). The same line stands in 1 Chronicles 16, where the WEB has "Display his salvation from day to day" (1 Chronicles 16:23); the Hebrew verb is the same.