Mazmur 67:3

67:3 Let the nations thank you, O God!

Let all the nations thank you! ¹ 

Yesaya 40:5

40:5 The splendor ²  of the Lord will be revealed,

and all people ³  will see it at the same time.

For ⁴  the Lord has decreed it.” ⁵ 

Yesaya 45:14

The Lord is the Nations’ Only Hope

45:14 This is what the Lord says:

“The profit ⁶  of Egypt and the revenue ⁷  of Ethiopia,

along with the Sabeans, those tall men,

will be brought to you ⁸  and become yours.

They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. ⁹ 

They will bow down to you

and pray to you: ¹⁰ 

‘Truly God is with ¹¹  you; he has no peer; ¹² 

there is no other God!’”

Yesaya 52:10

52:10 The Lord reveals ¹³  his royal power ¹⁴ 

in the sight of all the nations;

the entire ¹⁵  earth sees

our God deliver. ¹⁶ 

[67:3]  ¹ tn Heb “let the nations, all of them, thank you.” The prefixed verbal forms in vv. 3-4a are understood as jussives in this call to praise.

[40:5]  ² tn Or “glory.” The Lord’s “glory” is his theophanic radiance and royal splendor (see Isa 6:3; 24:23; 35:2; 60:1; 66:18-19).

[40:5]  ³ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NAB, NIV “mankind”; TEV “the whole human race.”

[40:5]  ⁴ tn Or “indeed.”

[40:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord has spoken” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[45:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “labor,” which stands metonymically for the fruits of labor, either “monetary profit,” or “products.”

[45:14]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps, “merchandise” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “the gain of Ethiopia”; CEV “the treasures of Ethiopia.”

[45:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “they will pass over to you”; NASB, NIV “will come over to you”; CEV “will belong to you.”

[45:14]  ⁹ sn Restored Israel is depicted here in typical ancient Near Eastern fashion as an imperial power that receives riches and slaves as tribute.

[45:14]  ¹⁰ sn Israel’s vassals are portrayed as so intimidated and awed that they treat Israel as an intermediary to God or sub-deity.

[45:14]  ¹¹ tn Or perhaps, “among.” Cf. KJV, ASV “Surely God is in thee.”

[45:14]  ¹² tn Heb “there is no other” (so NIV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs at the end of v. 18, in v. 21, and at the end of v. 22.

[52:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “lays bare”; NLT “will demonstrate.”

[52:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “his holy arm.” This is a metonymy for his power.

[52:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the remote regions,” which here stand for the extremities and everything in between.

[52:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the deliverance of our God.” “God” is a subjective genitive here.