All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Parallel translations
- WEB All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
- BSB All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your 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 shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
- Isa 66:23And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
- Ps 66:4All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
- Rev 11:15And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
- Isa 2:2–4And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
- Ps 102:15So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
- Rom 15:9And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
- Ps 67:7God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
- Rom 11:25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- Ps 72:19And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
- Isa 59:19So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
- Isa 43:7Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
- Isa 11:9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
- Ps 102:18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
- Zech 14:9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
- Ps 22:27–31All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
- Eph 1:12That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
- Ps 72:8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
- 1 Pet 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- Rev 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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