The Nations Exhorted to Praise God.

For the music director; with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

God be gracious to us and bless us, And cause His face to shine upon us— Selah

That Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations.

May the nations be glad and sing for joy; For You will judge the peoples with fairness And guide the nations on the earth. Selah

And may all kings bow down before him, All nations serve him.

May his name endure forever; May his name produce descendants as long as the sun shines; And may people wish blessings on themselves by him; May all nations call him blessed.

He also drove out the nations from them And apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement, And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Grieving over the Destruction of Jerusalem, and Prayer for Help.

A Psalm of Asaph.

God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance; They have defiled Your holy temple; They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You, And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed Be known among the nations in our sight.

You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and planted it.

Arise, God, judge the earth! For You possess all the nations.

All nations whom You have made will come and worship before You, Lord, And they will glorify Your name.

He who disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke, He who teaches mankind knowledge?

Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples fairly.”

The Lord has made His salvation known; He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.

So the nations will fear the name of the Lord, And all the kings of the earth, Your glory.

He also gave them the lands of the nations, So that they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

And that He would bring down their descendants among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.

But they got involved with the nations And learned their practices,

So He handed them over to the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

Save us, Lord our God, And gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.

I will give thanks to You, Lord, among the peoples, And I will sing praises to You among the nations.

He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

He has made known to His people the power of His works, In giving them the inheritance of the nations.