Once again we move to a “new song,” perhaps an indication that these songs are looking ahead to the new things that YHWH is going to do, further revelations in action of his character as creator and judge. He has already “made known his victory,” the victory won by his “right hand and his holy arm,” so that all the ends of the earth can see it (98.2, 1, 3, reminding us of Isa. 52.7–12). Now, as his people praise him uninhibitedly and summon all the earth to join in, they are to look to the future and celebrate the fact that he will return at last to put the whole world right:
