[2] The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

It is unique in naming Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, the "three great intercessors" and featuring the threefold 'Holy' (verses 3, 5, 9).

[2] Alexander Kirkpatrick links this and other royal psalms to the restoration of Israel following the return from Babylon.

[11] Maria Luise Thurmair paraphrased Psalm 99 in the 1971 hymn in German "König ist der Herr".

Heinrich Schütz set a German metred version of Psalm 98 in the Becker Psalter, published in 1628, Der Herr ist König und residiert, SWV 197.