PSALM 33

1 Sing for joy in Yahweh, O you righteous ones;	Praise is becoming to the upright. [1]
2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre;	Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.[2]
3 Sing to Him a new song; [3]	Play skillfully with a shout of joy.[4]
4 For the word of Yahweh [5] is upright,	And all His work is done in faithfulness.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;	The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Yahweh.
6 By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made,	And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;	He lays up the deeps in storehouses. [6]
8 Let all the earth fear Yahweh;	Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was done;	He commanded, and it stood fast.
10 Yahweh nullifies the counsel of the nations;	He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
11 The counsel of Yahweh stands forever,	The plans of His heart from generation to generation.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,	The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

13 Yahweh looks from heaven;	He sees all the sons of men;
14 From His dwelling place He looks out	On all the inhabitants of the earth,
15 He who fashions the hearts of them all,	He who understands all their works.
16 The king is not saved by a mighty army;	A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
17 A horse is a false hope for victory;	Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of Yahweh is on those who fear Him,	On those who hope for His lovingkindness,
19 To deliver their soul from death	And to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for Yahweh;	He is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart rejoices in Him,	Because we trust in His holy name.
22 Let Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, be upon us,	According as we have hoped in You.

[1] Psalm 33 begins and ends on the same note that Psalm 32 ended,

Psalm 32:10-11

Psalm 33:1,21-22

10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, But he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him.

11 Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous ones;

And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.

1 Sing for joy in Yahweh, O you righteous ones; Praise is becoming to the upright.

21 For our heart rejoices in Him, Because we trust in His holy name.
22 Let Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, be upon us, According as we have hoped in You.

[2]The NASB95 misses the Hebrew parallelism here which is chiastic:

(A) Give thanks to the LORD (B) with the lyre;

(B’) With a harp of ten strings (A’) sing praises to Him

[3] “New song” is mentioned seven times in the Old Testament (Ps 33:3; 40:3; 96:1; 98:1; 144:9; 149:1; Isa 42:10) and twice in the New Testament (Rev 5:9; 14:3). “The phrase “new song” does not mean, as it would in English, an original melody and words. It is rather a response to a new divine act; “new” refers to the act it celebrates. Further, the act is not “brand new” and unprecedented but a renewing or reviving of an act of the past” (Clifford, Psalms, 121).

“There are certain phrases and figures in the Psalter, which are connected with the idea of plan and continuity in the work of God and of its destination to arrive at a final goal. Most characteristic of these, because most Psalm-like, is the phrase “a new song”... It receives light from the idea of the “new things” found in the prophecy, especially in the latter part of Isaiah. There the “new things” mean the great unparalleled events about to introduce the future state of Israel. The “new things” and the “new song” belong together, as may be clearly seen from Isa.xlii.9,10: “Behold the former things are come to pass and new things do I declare…Sing unto Jehovah a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth.” This prediction of the “new things” culminates in the promise of the “new heavens and a new earth.” Here seems to lie the root of the later employment of the word “new” in eschatological connections, the new name, the new creature, the new diatheke, the new Jerusalem..(Geerhardus Vos, The Pauline Eschatology, "Eschatology of the Psalter" pp.335-337).

[4] Apparently hymn singing in ancient Egypt did not sound pleasant. According to one scholar the hymns were sung in such a way that “the singing of the priests in the temple was likened to the rhythmic clatter of baboons at the rising of the sun” (quoted in Tremper Longman, “The Psalms and Ancient Near Eastern Prayer Genres” in Interpreting the Psalms edited by Firth and Johnston p.49).

[5] The term “word of Yahweh” (d^ebar YHWH) is found 241 times in the Old Testament (New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, 3:1087). Yahweh’s Word creates, covenants, redeems, shapes and governs history, and invites us to trust and hope in Him.

[6] A reference not only to creation but also an echo of redemption,

Exodus 15:5
“The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.

Exodus 15:8
“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. (see also Joshua 3:13,16; Psalm 78:13)