The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
- KJV The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
- ESV 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 the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
- Ps 29:10The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
- 1 Tim 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Deut 8:20Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
- Dan 4:34But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- Ps 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.
- Dan 6:26I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.
- Ps 9:5You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
- Ps 44:2–3With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- 1 Tim 6:15–16which the blessed and only Sovereign One—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will bring about in His own time.
- Isa 33:22For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- Ps 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
- Ps 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Ps 146:10The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!
- Ps 18:43–45You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
- Lam 5:19You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
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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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