66:4 All the earth worships 1 you
and sings praises to you!
They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)
74:16 You established the cycle of day and night; 2
you put the moon 3 and sun in place. 4
89:11 The heavens belong to you, as does the earth.
You made the world and all it contains. 5
144:9 O God, I will sing a new song to you!
Accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, I will sing praises to you,
1 tn Or “bows down to.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 4 are taken (1) as imperfects expressing what is typical. Another option (2) is to interpret them as anticipatory (“all the earth will worship you”) or (3) take them as jussives, expressing a prayer or wish (“may all the earth worship you”).
2 tn Heb “To you [is] day, also to you [is] night.”
3 tn Heb “[the] light.” Following the reference to “day and night” and in combination with “sun,” it is likely that the Hebrew term מָאוֹר (ma’or, “light”) refers here to the moon.
4 tn Heb “you established [the] light and [the] sun.”
3 tn Heb “the world and its fullness, you established them.”