The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
- BSB The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from 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 an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
- Ps 29:10The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
- 1 Tim 1:17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Deut 8:20As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
- Dan 4:34And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
- Ps 145:13Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
- Dan 6:26I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
- Ps 9:5Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
- Ps 44:2–3How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
- 1 Tim 6:15–16Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
- Isa 33:22For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
- Ps 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
- Ps 78:55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Ps 146:10The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
- Ps 18:43–45Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
- Lam 5:19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne 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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