Psalm 67
Purpose: To ask God to bring the nations to himself by blessing Israel.
Content: Bless us, God, so the nations will know you and all the nations (including Israel) will worship you.
Message: As God blesses us in ways like giving us a good harvest, the other nations will come to know him and worship him.
Author: Anonymous
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Translation
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- 1. For the music director. With stringed instruments. A psalm, a song.
- 2. May God be gracious to us and may he bless us.
- May he shine his face toward us — Selah.
- 3. — in order to understand your way on earth,
- your salvation among all nations.
- 4. Let the peoples praise you, God,
- let the peoples praise you, all of them.
- 5. Let the nations shout joyfully,
- because you rule the peoples fairly,
- and the nations you guide on the earth. Selah.
- 6. Let the peoples praise you, God,
- let the peoples praise you, all of them.
- 7. The earth has yielded its produce.
- May God, our God, bless us.
- 8. May God bless us
- so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.
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