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The Lord has announced his victory and has revealed his righteousness to every nation!
Psalms 98:2 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
  • KJV The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
  • BSB The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
  • NKJV The Lord has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
  • NASB The Lord has made His salvation known; He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.

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Quick answer

God has openly made His salvation and righteousness known to the nations. His saving work is public, not hidden.

Overview

The Lord's deliverance is displayed before all the nations, revealing both His power to save and His covenant faithfulness. 'Righteousness' here includes His faithful action to set things right for His people. This anticipates the gospel going to all nations, where God's saving righteousness is revealed in Christ (Romans 1:16-17).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • 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.
  • Isa 62:2The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you will be called by a new name, which Yahweh‘s mouth will name.
  • Ps 22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
  • Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
  • Rom 3:21–26But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
  • Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
  • Jer 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. This is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
  • Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
  • Isa 46:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
  • Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
  • John 16:8–10When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
  • 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
  • Rom 9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
  • Rom 10:3–4For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • Luke 3:6All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”
  • Ps 24:5He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
  • Luke 2:30–32for my eyes have seen your salvation,
  • Isa 45:21–25Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
  • 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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

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

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  • 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 98:2 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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