that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
Parallel translations
- WEB That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,
- KJV That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
- NKJV That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
- NASB That Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations.
- NLT May your ways be known throughout the earth, your saving power among people everywhere.
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Quick answer
The purpose of God's blessing is that His way and salvation be known among all nations. It reveals God's missionary purpose for His people.
Overview
The psalmist explains that God blesses His people so that His way and saving power may be known throughout the earth. Israel was blessed to be a blessing to the world. This purpose is fulfilled in the Great Commission, as Christ's salvation is proclaimed to all nations.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
- Ps 98:2–3The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
- Acts 18:25He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
- Luke 3:6And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”
- Isa 52:10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- Luke 2:30–31For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
- Ps 43:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
- Ps 66:1–4For the choirmaster. A song. A Psalm. Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth!
- Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
- Esth 8:15–17Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
- Acts 13:10and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
- Ps 117:2For great is His loving devotion toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Hallelujah!
- Zech 8:20–23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—
- Acts 22:4I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
- Acts 9:31Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
- Matt 28:19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
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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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