Psalms 117

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Psalm 117¹

117:1 Praise the Lord, all you nations!

Applaud him, all you foreigners!²

117:2 For his loyal love towers³ over us,

and the Lord’s faithfulness endures.

Praise the Lord!

[117:1] ¹ sn Psalm 117. The psalmist tells the nations to praise the Lord for his loyal love and faithfulness.

[117:1] ² tn Or “peoples” (see Ps 108:3).

[117:2] ³ tn For this sense of the Hebrew verb גָּבַר (gavar), see Ps 103:11 and L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.