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Psalms 86:9

86:8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

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All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name.

86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

What does Psalms 86:9 mean?

Psalms 86:9 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include גּוֹי (gôwy), עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh), בּוֹא (bôwʼ).

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nationsגּוֹיgôwy/go'-ee/H1471a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
whom
thou
hast
madeעָשָׂהʻâsâh/aw-saw'/H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
shall
comeבּוֹאbôwʼ/bo/H935to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
and
worshipשָׁחָהshâchâh/shaw-khaw'/H7812to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
beforeפָּנִיםpânîym/paw-neem'/H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
thee,
O
Lord;אֲדֹנָיʼĂdônây/ad-o-noy'/H136the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
and
shall
glorifyכָּבַדkâbad/kaw-bad'/H3513to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
thy
name.שֵׁםshêm/shame/H8034an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 86:9.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Genesis 11:9

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Babel: that is, Confusion

Genesis 12:5

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Genesis 13:4

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 16:6

But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. as: Heb. that which is good in thine eyes dealt: Heb. afflicted her

Genesis 16:8

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

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What does Psalms 86:9 say?

Psalms 86:9 (King James Version) reads: "All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name."

Is Psalms 86:9 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 86:9 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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