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God reigns above the nations,
    sitting on his holy throne.

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31 Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice!
    Tell all the nations, “The Lord reigns!”

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16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

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Psalm 93

The Lord is king! He is robed in majesty.
    Indeed, the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength.
The world stands firm
    and cannot be shaken.

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14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
    Unfailing love and truth walk before you as attendants.

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Your throne, O God,[a] endures forever and ever.
    You rule with a scepter of justice.
You love justice and hate evil.
    Therefore God, your God, has anointed you,
    pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:6 Or Your divine throne.

27 The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him.
    All the families of the nations will bow down before him.
28 For royal power belongs to the Lord.
    He rules all the nations.

29 Let the rich of the earth feast and worship.
    Bow before him, all who are mortal,
    all whose lives will end as dust.

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For you have judged in my favor;
    from your throne you have judged with fairness.

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The Final Judgment

11 And I saw a great white throne and the one sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide.

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Then I heard again what sounded like the shout of a vast crowd or the roar of mighty ocean waves or the crash of loud thunder:

“Praise the Lord!
    For the Lord our God,[a] the Almighty, reigns.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:6 Some manuscripts read the Lord God.

He will punish the nations
    and fill their lands with corpses;
    he will shatter heads over the whole earth.

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Psalm 99

The Lord is king!
    Let the nations tremble!
He sits on his throne between the cherubim.
    Let the whole earth quake!

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Psalm 97

The Lord is king!
    Let the earth rejoice!
    Let the farthest coastlands be glad.

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10 Tell all the nations, “The Lord reigns!”
    The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.
    He will judge all peoples fairly.

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20 Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side—
    leaders whose decrees permit injustice?

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Psalm 48

A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korah.

How great is the Lord,
    how deserving of praise,
in the city of our God,
    which sits on his holy mountain!

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