For the music director; a song, a psalm.
66:1 Shout out praise to God, all the earth!
66:4 All the earth worships 2 you
and sings praises to you!
They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)
1 sn Psalm 66. The psalmist praises God because he has delivered his people from a crisis.
2 tn Or “bows down to.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 4 are taken (1) as imperfects expressing what is typical. Another option (2) is to interpret them as anticipatory (“all the earth will worship you”) or (3) take them as jussives, expressing a prayer or wish (“may all the earth worship you”).