Psalms 22:27

22:27 Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! ¹ 

Let all the nations ²  worship you! ³ 

Psalms 86:9

86:9 All the nations, whom you created,

will come and worship you, ⁴  O Lord.

They will honor your name.

Psalms 95:6

95:6 Come! Let’s bow down and worship! ⁵ 

Let’s kneel before the Lord, our creator!

Psalms 97:7

97:7 All who worship idols are ashamed,

those who boast about worthless idols.

All the gods bow down before him. ⁶ 

Psalms 99:9

99:9 Praise ⁷  the Lord our God!

Worship on his holy hill,

for the Lord our God is holy!

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¹ tn Heb “may all the ends of the earth remember and turn to the Lord.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 27 are understood as jussives (cf. NEB). Another option (cf. NIV, NRSV) is to take the forms as imperfects and translate, “all the people of the earth will acknowledge and turn…and worship.” See vv. 29-32.

² tn Heb “families of the nations.”

³ tn Heb “before you.”

⁴ tn Or “bow down before you.”

⁵ tn Heb “kneel down.”

⁶ tn The translation assumes that the prefixed verbal form in the first line is an imperfect (“are ashamed”) and that the ambiguous form in the third line is a perfect (“bow down”) because the psalmist appears to be describing the effect of the Lord’s mighty theophany on those who witness it (see vv. 5, 8). Another option is to take the prefixed form in the first line as a jussive (“let all who worship idols be ashamed”) and the ambiguous form in the third line as an imperative (“All you gods, bow down before him!”; cf. NIV).

⁷ tn Or “exalt.”