Mazmur 22:28

22:28 For the Lord is king ¹ 

and rules over the nations.

Mazmur 63:1

Psalm 63 ² 

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. ³ 

63:1 O God, you are my God! I long for you! ⁴ 

My soul thirsts ⁵  for you,

my flesh yearns for you,

in a dry and parched ⁶  land where there is no water.

Yesaya 48:1

The Lord Appeals to the Exiles

48:1 Listen to this, O family of Jacob, ⁷ 

you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’

and are descended from Judah, ⁸ 

who take oaths in the name of the Lord,

and invoke ⁹  the God of Israel –

but not in an honest and just manner. ¹⁰ 

Yeremia 4:2

4:2 You must be truthful, honest and upright

when you take an oath saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’ ¹¹ 

If you do, ¹²  the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are

and will make him the object of their boasting.” ¹³ 

Zefanya 3:9

3:9 Know for sure that I will then enable

the nations to give me acceptable praise. ¹⁴ 

All of them will invoke the Lord’s name when they pray, ¹⁵ 

and will worship him in unison. ¹⁶ 

[22:28]  ¹ tn Heb “for to the Lord [is] dominion.”

[63:1]  ² sn Psalm 63. The psalmist expresses his intense desire to be in God’s presence and confidently affirms that God will judge his enemies.

[63:1]  ³ sn According to the psalm superscription David wrote the psalm while in the “wilderness of Judah.” Perhaps this refers to the period described in 1 Sam 23-24 or to the incident mentioned in 2 Sam 15:23.

[63:1]  ⁴ tn Or “I will seek you.”

[63:1]  ⁵ tn Or “I thirst.”

[63:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “faint” or “weary.” This may picture the land as “faint” or “weary,” or it may allude to the effect this dry desert has on those who are forced to live in it.

[48:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV, CEV “people of Israel.”

[48:1]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew text reads literally “and from the waters of Judah came out.” מִמֵּי (mimme) could be a corruption of מִמְּעֵי (mimmÿ’e, “from the inner parts of”; cf. NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV) as suggested in the above translation. Some translations (ESV, NKJV) retain the MT reading because the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, which corrects a similar form to “from inner parts of” in 39:7, does not do it here.

[48:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “cause to remember”; KJV, ASV “make mention of.”

[48:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “not in truth and not in righteousness.”

[4:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “If you [= you must, see the translator’s note on the word “do” later in this verse] swear/take an oath, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in truth, justice, and righteousness…”

[4:2]  ¹² tn 4:1-2a consists of a number of “if” clauses, two of which are formally introduced by the Hebrew particle אִם (’im) while the others are introduced by the conjunction “and,” followed by a conjunction (“and” = “then”) with a perfect in 4:2b which introduces the consequence. The translation “You must…. If you do,” was chosen to avoid a long and complicated sentence.

[4:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “bless themselves in him and make their boasts in him.”

[3:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Certainly [or perhaps, “For”] then I will restore to the nations a pure lip.”

[3:9]  sn I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. This apparently refers to a time when the nations will reject their false idol-gods and offer genuine praise to the one true God.

[3:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “so that all of them will call on the name of the Lord.”

[3:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “so that [they] will serve him [with] one shoulder.”