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Psalm 117[a]

117 Praise the Lord, all you nations.
Applaud him, all you foreigners.[b]
For his loyal love towers[c] over us,
and the Lord’s faithfulness endures.
Praise the Lord.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 117:1 sn Psalm 117. The psalmist tells the nations to praise the Lord for his loyal love and faithfulness.
  2. Psalm 117:1 tn Or “peoples” (see Ps 108:3).
  3. Psalm 117:2 tn For this sense of the Hebrew verb גָּבַר (gavar), see Ps 103:11 and L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.

A Hymn of Praise

117 All you nations, praise the Lord.
    All you people, ·praise [extol] him
because ·the Lord loves us very much [L great is his loyalty/love toward us],
    and his ·truth [faithfulness] is everlasting.

Praise the Lord!