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God blesses us, So that all the ends of the earth may fear Him.
Psalms 67:7 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
  • KJV God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
  • BSB God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
  • NKJV God shall bless us, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
  • NLT Yes, God will bless us, and people all over the world will fear him.

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Quick answer

God will bless us so that all the ends of the earth will fear Him. It ties God's blessing to the reverence of the whole world.

Overview

The psalm closes by affirming that God's blessing on His people has the goal that all the earth will fear Him. Blessing is given for a worldwide, God-glorifying end. This is realized as the gospel of Christ spreads, bringing people everywhere to reverence God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Ps 22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
  • Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  • Acts 13:26Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
  • Ps 65:5By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;
  • Rev 15:4Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
  • Gen 12:2–3I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
  • Acts 13:47For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
  • Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Ps 29:11Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
  • Acts 2:28You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
  • Isa 43:6I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth —
  • Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
  • Ps 72:17His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
  • Mic 5:4He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
  • Zech 9:10I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
  • Gal 3:9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
  • Ps 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Ps 33:8Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
  • Gal 3:14that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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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.

How Psalms 67:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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