Psalms 117:1
Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 66:4All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.” Selah.
Psalms 86:9All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
Psalms 150:6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
Isaiah 42:10Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.
Revelation 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
Revelation 15:4Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
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 →