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Psalm 67:1 through Psalm 67:7 (NIV)
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face shine upon us,
Selah
2 that your ways may be known on earth,
your salvation among all nations.
3 May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you.
4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you rule the peoples justly
and guide the nations of the earth.
Selah
5 May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you.
6 Then the land will yield its harvest,
and God, our God, will bless us.
7 God will bless us,
and all the ends of the earth will fear him.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
All our happiness comes from God’s mercy; therefore the first thing prayed
for is, God be merciful to us, to us sinners, and pardon our sins. Pardon is
conveyed by God’s blessing, and secured in that. If we, by faith, walk with God,
we may hope that his face will shine on us. The psalmist passes on to a prayer
for the conversion of the Gentiles, which shows that the Old Testament saints
desired that their advantages might also be enjoyed by others. And many
Scripture prophecies and promises are wrapped up in prayers: the answer to the
prayer of the church is as sure as the performance of God’s promises. The joy
wished to the nations, is holy joy. Let them be glad that by his providence the
Lord will overrule the affairs of kingdoms; that even the kingdoms of this world
shall became the kingdom of the Lord, and of his Christ. Then is declared a
joyful prospect of all good when God shall do this. The success of the gospel
brings outward mercies with it; righteousness exalts a nation. The blessing of
the Lord sweetens all our creature-comforts to us, and makes them comforts
indeed. All the world shall be brought to worship Him. When the gospel begins to
spread, it shall go forward more and more, till it reaches to the ends of the
earth. It is good to cast in our lot with those that are the blessed of the
Lord. If nothing had been spoken in Scripture respecting the conversion of the
heathen, we might think it vain to attempt so hopeless a work. But when we see
with what confidence it is declared in the Scriptures, we may engage in
missionary labours, assured that God will fulfil his own word. And shall we be
backward to make known to the heathen the knowledge with which we are favoured,
and the salvation we profess to glory in? They cannot learn unless they are
taught. Then let us go forward in the strength of the Lord, and look to him to
accompany the word the Holy Ghost; then Satan’s kingdom shall be destroyed, and
the kingdom of our Redeemer established.