97:1 The Lord reigns!
Let the earth be happy!
Let the many coastlands rejoice!
138:4 Let all the kings of the earth give thanks 2 to you, O Lord,
when they hear the words you speak. 3
138:5 Let them sing about the Lord’s deeds, 4
for the Lord’s splendor is magnificent. 5
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.
24:14 They 6 lift their voices and shout joyfully;
they praise 7 the majesty of the Lord in the west.
24:15 So in the east 8 extol the Lord,
along the seacoasts extol 9 the fame 10 of the Lord God of Israel.
24:16 From the ends of the earth we 11 hear songs –
the Just One is majestic. 12
But I 13 say, “I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed!
Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!” 14
42:10 Sing to the Lord a brand new song!
Praise him 15 from the horizon of the earth,
you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, 16
you coastlands 17 and those who live there!
42:11 Let the desert and its cities shout out,
the towns where the nomads of Kedar live!
Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully;
let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.
42:12 Let them give the Lord the honor he deserves; 18
let them praise his deeds in the coastlands. 19
54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth!
Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the desolate one are more numerous
than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; 22
break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains,
because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous
than those of the woman who has a husband.” 23
1 sn Psalm 97. The psalmist depicts the Lord as the sovereign, just king of the world who comes in power to vindicate his people.
2 tn The prefixed verbal forms here and in the following verse are understood as jussives, for the psalmist appears to be calling upon the kings to praise God. Another option is to take them as imperfects and translate, “the kings of the earth will give thanks…and will sing.” In this case the psalmist anticipates a universal response to his thanksgiving song.
3 tn Heb “the words of your mouth.”
4 tn Heb “ways.”
5 tn Heb “great.”
6 sn The remnant of the nations (see v. 13) may be the unspecified subject. If so, then those who have survived the judgment begin to praise God.
7 tn Heb “they yell out concerning.”
8 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “in the lights,” interpreted by some to mean “in the region of light,” referring to the east. Some scholars have suggested the emendation of בָּאֻרִים (ba’urim) to בְּאִיֵּי הַיָּם (bÿ’iyyey hayyam, “along the seacoasts”), a phrase that is repeated in the next line. In this case, the two lines form synonymous parallelism. If one retains the MT reading (as above), “in the east” and “along the seacoasts” depict the two ends of the earth to refer to all the earth (as a merism).
9 tn The word “extol” is supplied in the translation; the verb in the first line does double duty in the parallelism.
10 tn Heb “name,” which here stands for God’s reputation achieved by his mighty deeds.
11 sn The identity of the subject is unclear. Apparently in vv. 15-16a an unidentified group responds to the praise they hear in the west by exhorting others to participate.
12 tn Heb “Beauty belongs to the just one.” These words may summarize the main theme of the songs mentioned in the preceding line.
13 sn The prophet seems to contradict what he hears the group saying. Their words are premature because more destruction is coming.
14 tn Heb “and [with] deception deceivers deceive.”
15 tn Heb “his praise.” The phrase stands parallel to “new song” in the previous line.
16 tn Heb “and its fullness”; NASB, NIV “and all that is in it.”
17 tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “distant coastlands.”
18 tn Heb “Let them ascribe to the Lord glory.”
19 tn Heb “and his praise in the coastlands [or “islands”] let them declare.”
20 sn A quotation from Deut 32:43.
21 sn A quotation from Ps 117:1.
22 tn The direct object “children” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied for clarity. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
23 tn Grk “because more are the children of the barren one than of the one having a husband.”