Psalms 57:9
I will praise You, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing Your praises among the peoples.
BSB
ASV
I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the peoples: I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
KJV
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people. Gentiles shall hear my praise. Here is an instance of the way in which the truly devout evangelic spirit overleaps the boundaries which bigotry sets up. The ordinary Jew would never wish the Gentile dogs to hear Jehovah's name, except to tremble at it; but this grace taught psalmist has a missionary spirit, and would spread the praise and fame of his God. I will sing unto thee among the nations. However far off they may be, I would make them hear of thee through my glad psalmody.
When David was driven out into heathen lands he would not only not worship their gods, but he would openly avow his veneration for the God of Israel, would take his religion along with him wherever he went, would endeavour to bring others in love with it, and leave the sweet savour of it behind him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Romans 15:9so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”
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Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
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Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
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You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen…
Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”