Psalms 67:4

67:4 Let foreigners 1  rejoice and celebrate!

For you execute justice among the nations,

and govern the people living on earth. 2  (Selah)

Psalms 68:32

68:32 O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God!

Sing praises to the Lord, (Selah)

Psalms 117:1-2

Psalm 117 3 

117:1 Praise the Lord, all you nations!

Applaud him, all you foreigners! 4 

117:2 For his loyal love towers 5  over us,

and the Lord’s faithfulness endures.

Praise the Lord!

Deuteronomy 32:43

32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,

for he will avenge his servants’ blood;

he will take vengeance against his enemies,

and make atonement for his land and people.

Zechariah 14:9

14:9 The Lord will then be king over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be seen as one with a single name. 6 

Romans 15:10

15:10 And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.” 7 

1 tn Or “peoples.”

2 tn Heb “for you judge nations fairly, and [as for the] peoples in the earth, you lead them.” The imperfects are translated with the present tense because the statement is understood as a generalization about God’s providential control of the world. Another option is to understand the statement as anticipating God’s future rule (“for you will rule…and govern”).

3 sn Psalm 117. The psalmist tells the nations to praise the Lord for his loyal love and faithfulness.

4 tn Or “peoples” (see Ps 108:3).

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

6 sn The expression the Lord will be seen as one with a single name is an unmistakable reference to the so-called Shema, the crystallized statement of faith in the Lord as the covenant God of Israel (cf. Deut 6:4-5). Zechariah, however, universalizes the extent of the Lord’s dominion – he will be “king over all the earth.”

7 sn A quotation from Deut 32:43.