Psalms 66:1

Psalm 66 ¹ 

For the music director; a song, a psalm.

66:1 Shout out praise to God, all the earth!

Psalms 66:4

66:4 All the earth worships ²  you

and sings praises to you!

They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)

[66:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 66. The psalmist praises God because he has delivered his people from a crisis.

[66:4]  ² 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”).