Psalms 98:5

A Psalm] RV 'melody': see Isaiah 51:3.

His footstool] The ark is so called in 1 Chronicles 28:2, but if this Ps. was written after the exile the ark cannot be directly referred to here. The language may be a survival of an earlier usage.

For he is holy] RV 'holy is he,' as in Psalms 99:3.

6-8. These vv. may be taken as an illustration from the past of the principle on which God still deals with His people, or they may be translated by present tenses, as referring to the intercessors in Israel whose prayers God has answered in the deliverance from captivity, and who are figuratively called 'A Moses.. a Samuel.'