Mazmur 66:4

66:4 All the earth worships ¹  you

and sings praises to you!

They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)

Yesaya 35:10

35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. ² 

They will enter Zion with a happy shout.

Unending joy will crown them, ³ 

happiness and joy will overwhelm ⁴  them;

grief and suffering will disappear. ⁵ 

[66:4]  ¹ 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”).

[35:10]  ² tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”

[35:10]  ³ tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.

[35:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”

[35:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”