Mazmur 67:3

67:3 Let the nations thank you, O God!

Let all the nations thank you! ¹ 

Lukas 2:30

2:30 For my eyes have seen your salvation ² 

Lukas 3:6

3:6 and all humanity ³  will see the salvation of God.’” ⁴ 

[67:3]  ¹ tn Heb “let the nations, all of them, thank you.” The prefixed verbal forms in vv. 3-4a are understood as jussives in this call to praise.

[2:30]  ² sn To see Jesus, the Messiah, is to see God’s salvation.

[3:6]  ³ tn Grk “all flesh.”

[3:6]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Isa 40:3-5. Though all the synoptic gospels use this citation from Isaiah, only Luke cites the material of vv. 5-6. His goal may well be to get to the declaration of v. 6, where all humanity (i.e., all nations) see God’s salvation (see also Luke 24:47).