Verses 1-7
This is another song that exhorts the nations to praise God that an unknown psalmist penned. Its theme is similar to that of Psalms 66.
"If a psalm was ever written round the promises to Abraham, that he would be both blessed and made a blessing, it could well have been such as this. The song begins at home, and returns to pause there a moment before the end; but its thought always flies to the distant peoples and to what awaits them when the blessing that has reached ’us’ reaches all." [Note: Kidner, p. 236.]
"The evidence for the early date of the psalm challenges the critical supposition that Israel’s missionary outlook developed after the Exile. Clearly the psalm is a missionary psalm, since it looks forward to the rule of God over Jews and Gentiles (cf. Acts 28:28)." [Note: VanGemeren, p. 440.]
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