Verse 4

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for You shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 98:9 : 9 Before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness he shall judge the world, and the people with fairness.
  • Acts 17:31 : 31 Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 15:10-11 : 10 And again he says, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people. 11 And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; and laud him, all you people.
  • Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.'
  • Rev 11:15-17 : 15 And the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. 16 And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who is and who was and who is to come, because You have taken Your great power and have reigned.
  • Ps 138:4-5 : 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O LORD, when they hear the words of Your mouth. 5 Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD.
  • Isa 24:14-16 : 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. 16 From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, 'My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.'
  • Isa 42:10-12 : 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is in it; the islands, and their inhabitants. 11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
  • Isa 54:1 : 1 Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
  • Isa 55:4 : 4 Behold, I have given him as a witness to the people, a leader and commander for the people.
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, O nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people.
  • Ps 2:8 : 8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
  • Ps 9:8 : 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness; he shall administer judgment to the people in uprightness.
  • Ps 82:6 : 6 I have said, 'You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.'
  • Ps 96:10-97:1 : 10 Say among the nations that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and all its fullness. 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the forest rejoice 13 Before the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. 1 The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of islands be glad.