Let the whole world bless our God and loudly sing his praises.
Parallel translations
- WEB Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
- KJV O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
- BSB Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of His praise be heard.
- NKJV Oh, bless our God, you peoples! And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
- NASB ¶Bless our God, you peoples, And sound His praise abroad,
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Quick answer
The peoples are called to bless God and make His praise heard aloud. It summons public, audible praise of God.
Overview
The psalmist invites all peoples to bless God and let the sound of His praise be heard. Worship is to be communal and openly declared. Such praise foreshadows the great chorus of the redeemed gathered from every people in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 98:4Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
- Ps 66:2Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!
- Jer 33:11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 47:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
- Rev 19:1After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Rom 15:10–11Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”
- Rev 19:5–6A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”
- Deut 32:43Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
- Rev 5:11–14I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
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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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