Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
Parallel translations
- WEB The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
- BSB Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
- NKJV The foreigners submit to me; As soon as they hear, they obey me.
- NASB “Foreigners pretend to obey me; As soon as they hear, they obey me.
- NLT Foreign nations cringe before me; as soon as they hear of me, they submit.
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Quick answer
Foreigners submit to David, obeying as soon as they hear of him. His God-given reign draws even distant peoples into obedience.
Overview
The submission of foreign nations testifies to the LORD's exaltation of his anointed king. This anticipates the ingathering of the Gentiles under the rule of God's chosen one. It is gloriously fulfilled in Christ, before whom peoples of every nation bow and to whose name the world will yet render obedience.
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- Ps 81:15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
- Ps 66:3Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
- Ps 18:44–45As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
- Deut 33:29Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
- Isa 56:6Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
- Isa 56:3Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
- Acts 8:13Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
- Acts 8:21–23Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
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God's covenant with David — a son whose throne and kingdom would last forever (7:12–16) — finds its yes in Jesus, the Son of David who reigns without end.
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