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All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name.
Psalms 86:9 · New Living Translation
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.
  • 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.

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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

Cross-references · 20

  • 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.”
  • Isa 66:23It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.
  • Ps 66:4All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.” Selah.
  • Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
  • Isa 2:2–4It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
  • Ps 102:15So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name; all the kings of the earth your glory.
  • Rom 15:9and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
  • Ps 67:7God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
  • Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
  • Ps 72:19Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
  • Isa 59:19So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
  • Isa 43:7everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”
  • Isa 11:9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Ps 102:18This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.
  • Zech 14:9Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
  • Ps 22:27–31All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
  • Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
  • Ps 72:8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Rev 20:3and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

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 86:9 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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