That, indeed, seems to be the message of another psalm: God is king over the nations; God sits on his holy throne. The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted.16 Put those psalms together with others such as Psalm 72 (“May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth”17),
