All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
Parallel translations
- WEB All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
- KJV All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
- NKJV All nations whom You have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your name.
- NASB All nations whom You have made will come and worship before You, Lord, And they will glorify Your name.
- NLT All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name.
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Quick answer
All nations God has made will come and worship before Him, glorifying His name. God's purpose is worship from every people.
Overview
This verse looks beyond Israel to the worship of all nations, reflecting the universal scope of God's reign. It echoes the promise that all peoples will be blessed and bow before the LORD. The prophecy is being fulfilled as the gospel goes to the nations, gathering worshipers to Christ from every tribe and tongue.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 15:4Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”
- Isa 66:23From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.
- Ps 66:4All the earth bows down to You; they sing praise to You; they sing praise to Your name.” Selah
- Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- Isa 2:2–4In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
- Ps 102:15So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory.
- Rom 15:9so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”
- Ps 67:7God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
- Rom 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
- Ps 72:19And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
- Isa 59:19So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
- Isa 43:7everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
- Isa 11:9They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
- Ps 102:18Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.
- Zech 14:9On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
- Ps 22:27–31All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- Eph 1:12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
- Ps 72:8May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- Rev 20:3And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.
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