Psalms 117:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Praise the LORD, all you nations! Applaud him, all you foreigners!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַֽלְל֣וּ אֶת־יְ֭הוָה כָּל־גּוֹיִ֑ם שַׁ֝בְּח֗וּהוּ כָּל־הָאֻמִּֽים׃

Transliteration

Hallelû ʾet-YHWH all-gôyîm; šabbəḥûhû all-hāʾummîm.

Grammar Details

• *Hallelû*: Piel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural - praise/glorify
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *kāl*: construct state - all of
• *gôyîm*: common noun, masculine plural - nations/peoples/gentiles
• *šabbəḥûhû*: Piel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - praise him
• *hāʾummîm*: definite common noun, masculine plural - peoples/nations/tribes

Word Meanings

• *Hallelû*: praise/glorify/celebrate
• *gôyîm*: nations/gentiles/peoples
• *šabbəḥûhû*: praise him/laud him/extol him
• *hāʾummîm*: peoples/nations/tribes/ethnic groups

Referenced Verses

• Rom 15:11 : 11 And again,“Praise the Lord all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.”
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
• Rev 7:9-9 : 9 After these things I looked, and here was an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands. 10 They were shouting out in a loud voice,“Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
• Rev 15:4 : 4 Who will not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name, because you alone are holy? All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
• Ps 66:1 : 1 For the music director; a song, a psalm. Shout out praise to God, all the earth!
• Ps 66:4 : 4 All the earth worships you and sings praises to you! They sing praises to your name!”(Selah)
• Ps 67:3 : 3 Let the nations thank you, O God! Let all the nations thank you!
• Ps 86:9 : 9 All the nations, whom you created, will come and worship you, O Lord. They will honor your name.
• Ps 148:11-14 : 11 you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders on the earth, 12 you young men and young women, you elderly, along with you children! 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty extends over the earth and sky. 14 He has made his people victorious, and given all his loyal followers reason to praise– the Israelites, the people who are close to him. Praise the LORD!
• Ps 150:6 : 6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
• Isa 24:15-16 : 15 So in the east extol the LORD, along the seacoasts extol the fame of the LORD God of Israel. 16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs– the Just One is majestic. But I say,“I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!”
• Isa 42:10-12 : 10 Sing to the LORD a brand new song! Praise him from the horizon of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, you coastlands and those who live there! 11 Let the wilderness and its cities shout out, the towns where the nomads of Kedar live! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops. 12 Let them give the LORD the honor he deserves; let them praise his deeds in the coastlands.