Psalms 117:1
O praise LORD, all ye Gentiles, laud him, all ye peoples.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
In Context
2For his loving kindness is great toward us, and the truth of LORD [is] forever. Praise ye LORD.
Cross References
Psalms 66:4All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing to thee. They shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Psalms 86:9All nations whom thou have made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD, and they shall glorify thy name.
Psalms 150:6Let everything that has breath praise LORD. Praise ye LORD.
Isaiah 42:10Sing to LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Revelation 5:9And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Revelation 15:4Who will, no, not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, because thou alone are holy? Because all the nations will come and worship before thee, because thy righteous deeds were made known.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 117:1
This psalm is short and sweet; I doubt the reason why we sing it so often as we do is for the shortness of it; but, if we rightly understood and considered it, we should sing it oftener for the sweetness of it, especially to us sinners of the Gentiles, on whom it casts a very favourable eye. Here is, I. A solemn call to all nations to praise God, ver. 1 . II. Proper matter for that praise suggested, ver. 2 . We are soon weary indeed of well-doing if, in singing this psalm, we keep not up those pious and devout… Read the whole commentary →