Mazmur 22:27-28

22:27 Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! ¹ 

Let all the nations ²  worship you! ³ 

22:28 For the Lord is king ⁴ 

and rules over the nations.

Mazmur 72:11

72:11 All kings will bow down to him;

all nations will serve him.

Mazmur 86:9

86:9 All the nations, whom you created,

will come and worship you, ⁵  O Lord.

They will honor your name.

Mazmur 89:15-17

89:15 How blessed are the people who worship you! ⁶ 

O Lord, they experience your favor. ⁷ 

89:16 They rejoice in your name all day long,

and are vindicated ⁸  by your justice.

89:17 For you give them splendor and strength. ⁹ 

By your favor we are victorious. ¹⁰ 

[22:27]  ¹ tn Heb “may all the ends of the earth remember and turn to the Lord.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 27 are understood as jussives (cf. NEB). Another option (cf. NIV, NRSV) is to take the forms as imperfects and translate, “all the people of the earth will acknowledge and turn…and worship.” See vv. 29-32.

[22:27]  ² tn Heb “families of the nations.”

[22:27]  ³ tn Heb “before you.”

[22:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “for to the Lord [is] dominion.”

[86:9]  ⁵ tn Or “bow down before you.”

[89:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “who know the shout.” “Shout” here refers to the shouts of the Lord’s worshipers (see Pss 27:6; 33:3; 47:5).

[89:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the light of your face they walk.” The idiom “light of your face” probably refers to a smile (see Eccl 8:1), which in turn suggests favor and blessing (see Num 6:25; Pss 4:6; 31:16; 44:3; 67:1; 80:3, 7, 19; Dan 9:17).

[89:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “are lifted up.”

[89:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “for the splendor of their strength [is] you.”

[89:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you lift up our horn,” or if one follows the marginal reading (Qere), “our horn is lifted up.” The horn of an ox underlies the metaphor (see Deut 33:17; 1 Kgs 22:11; Ps 92:10). The horn of the wild ox is frequently a metaphor for military strength; the idiom “exalt/lift up the horn” signifies military victory (see 1 Sam 2:10; Pss 75:10; 89:24; 92:10; Lam 2:17).