Tell the nations about his splendor! Tell all the nations about his amazing deeds!

You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you – for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

Tell the nations about his splendor, tell all the nations about his miraculous deeds!

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the heavens.

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky.

The sky declares his justice, and all the nations see his splendor.

The Lord is elevated in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.

They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them to do.

You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,

You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

For the music director; by the Korahites; a psalm. All you nations, clap your hands! Shout out to God in celebration!

For the music director, a psalm by the Korahites. Listen to this, all you nations! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the world!

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.”

However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples – as is apparent today.

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).