Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
- BSB The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
- NKJV The Lord is King forever and ever; The nations have perished out of His land.
- NASB ¶The Lord is King forever and ever; Nations have perished from His land.
- NLT The Lord is king forever and ever! The godless nations will vanish from the land.
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Quick answer
Yahweh is King forever, and the nations will perish from His land. God's eternal kingship guarantees the end of all oppression.
Overview
The psalmist answers the problem of the wicked with the declaration of God's everlasting reign. Because Yahweh is King, hostile nations cannot finally endure in His land. This confession of God's sovereign kingship anchors hope and anticipates the consummated kingdom of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
- Ps 29:10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
- 1 Tim 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Deut 8:20As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
- Dan 4:34At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Ps 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.
- Dan 6:26I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
- Ps 9:5You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
- Ps 44:2–3You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
- 1 Tim 6:15–16which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
- Ps 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
- Ps 78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Ps 146:10Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!
- Ps 18:43–45You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
- Lam 5:19You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
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Christ at the center
The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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