The great ones of the earth are called upon to attend the praises of the victorious God of Israel. Hear … give eara frequent parallelism, e.g. Genesis 4:23; kings … princesagain in Habakkuk 1:10; Psalms 2:2; Proverbs 8:15; Proverbs 31:4. The word for princesthus occurs chiefly in the later literature, but it may have belonged to the elevated style in ancient poetry. I, unto Yahweh I will sing; there is a ring about the words in the original, and a strong emphasis on the pronoun. I will make melody, with voice and instruments, a word specially frequent in the Psalter.

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