Mazmur 22:27

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 

Mazmur 31:23

31:23 Love the Lord, all you faithful followers ⁴  of his!

The Lord protects those who have integrity,

but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly. ⁵ 

Mazmur 39:5

39:5 Look, you make my days short-lived, ⁶ 

and my life span is nothing from your perspective. ⁷ 

Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor. ⁸ 

Mazmur 47:9

47:9 The nobles of the nations assemble,

along with the people of the God of Abraham, ⁹ 

for God has authority over the rulers ¹⁰  of the earth.

He is highly exalted! ¹¹ 

Mazmur 51:19

51:19 Then you will accept ¹²  the proper sacrifices, burnt sacrifices and whole offerings;

then bulls will be sacrificed ¹³  on your altar. ¹⁴ 

Mazmur 57:9

57:9 I will give you thanks before the nations, O Master!

I will sing praises to you before foreigners! ¹⁵ 

Mazmur 59:12-13

59:12 They speak sinful words. ¹⁶ 

So let them be trapped by their own pride

and by the curses and lies they speak!

59:13 Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish!

Let them know that God rules

in Jacob and to the ends of the earth! (Selah)

Mazmur 65:5

65:5 You answer our prayers by performing awesome acts of deliverance,

O God, our savior. ¹⁷ 

All the ends of the earth trust in you, ¹⁸ 

as well as those living across the wide seas. ¹⁹ 

Mazmur 65:8

65:8 Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; ²⁰ 

you cause those living in the east and west to praise you. ²¹ 

Mazmur 98:3

98:3 He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel. ²² 

All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us. ²³ 

Mazmur 108:3

108:3 I will give you thanks before the nations, O Lord!

I will sing praises to you before foreigners! ²⁴ 

Mazmur 108:7

108:7 God has spoken in his sanctuary: ²⁵ 

“I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem,

the valley of Succoth I will measure off. ²⁶ 

Mazmur 135:7

135:7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth,

makes lightning bolts accompany the rain,

and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

[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.”

[31:23]  ⁴ tn A “faithful follower” (חָסִיד, khasid) is one who does what is right in God’s eyes and remains faithful to God (see Pss 4:3; 12:1; 16:10; 31:23; 37:28; 86:2; 97:10).

[31:23]  ⁵ tn The participial forms in the second and third lines characterize the Lord as one who typically protects the faithful and judges the proud.

[39:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “Look, handbreadths you make my days.” The “handbreadth” (equivalent to the width of four fingers) was one of the smallest measures used by ancient Israelites. See P. C. Craigie, Psalms 1-50 (WBC), 309.

[39:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “is like nothing before you.”

[39:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “surely, all vapor [is] all mankind, standing firm.” Another option is to translate, “Surely, all mankind, though seemingly secure, is nothing but a vapor.”

[47:9]  ⁹ tc The words “along with” do not appear in the MT. However, the LXX has “with,” suggesting that the original text may have read עִם עַם (’im ’am, “along with the people”). In this case the MT is haplographic (the consonantal sequence ayin-mem [עם] being written once instead of twice). Another option is that the LXX is simply and correctly interpreting “people” as an adverbial accusative and supplying the appropriate preposition.

[47:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for to God [belong] the shields of the earth.” Perhaps the rulers are called “shields” because they are responsible for protecting their people. See Ps 84:9, where the Davidic king is called “our shield,” and perhaps also Hos 4:18.

[47:9]  ¹¹ tn The verb עָלָה (’alah, “ascend”) appears once more (see v. 5), though now in the Niphal stem.

[51:19]  ¹² tn Or “desire, take delight in.”

[51:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “then they will offer up bulls.” The third plural subject is indefinite.

[51:19]  ¹⁴ sn Verses 18-19 appear to reflect the exilic period, when the city’s walls lay in ruins and the sacrificial system had been disrupted.

[57:9]  ¹⁵ tn Or “the peoples.”

[59:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the sin of their mouth [is] the word of their lips.”

[65:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “[with] awesome acts in deliverance you answer us, O God of our salvation.”

[65:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “a source of confidence [for] all the ends of the earth.”

[65:5]  sn All the ends of the earth trust in you. This idealistic portrayal of universal worship is typical hymnic hyperbole, though it does anticipate eschatological reality.

[65:5]  ¹⁹ tc Heb “and [the] distant sea.” The plural adjective is problematic after the singular form “sea.” One could emend יָם (yam, “sea”) to יָמִים (yamim, “seas”), or emend the plural form רְחֹקִים (rÿkhoqim, “far”) to the singular רָחֹק (rakhoq). In this case the final mem (ם) could be treated as dittographic; note the mem on the beginning of the first word in v. 6.

[65:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and the inhabitants of the ends fear because of your signs.” God’s “signs” are the “awesome acts” (see v. 5) he performs in the earth.

[65:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “the goings out of the morning and the evening you cause to shout for joy.” The phrase “goings out of the morning and evening” refers to the sunrise and sunset, that is, the east and the west.

[98:3]  ²² tn Heb “he remembers his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel.”

[98:3]  ²³ tn Heb “the deliverance of our God,” with “God” being a subjective genitive (= God delivers).

[108:3]  ²⁴ tn Or “the peoples.”

[108:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “in his holy place.”

[108:7]  ²⁶ sn Shechem stands for the territory west of the Jordan River; the valley of Succoth represents the region east of the Jordan.