For the music director; a song, a psalm.
66:1 Shout out praise to God, all the earth!
66:2 Sing praises about the majesty of his reputation! 2
Give him the honor he deserves! 3
66:3 Say to God:
“How awesome are your deeds!
Because of your great power your enemies cower in fear 4 before you.
1 sn Psalm 66. The psalmist praises God because he has delivered his people from a crisis.
2 tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
3 tn Heb “make honorable his praise.”
4 tn See Deut 33:29; Ps 81:15 for other uses of the verb כָּחַשׁ (kakhash) in the sense “cower in fear.” In Ps 18:44 the verb seems to carry the nuance “be weak, powerless” (see also Ps 109:24).