“Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.”
The reiteration of the call that peoples praise God emphasizes through repetition the fundamental goal of the entire psalm: universal recognition and worship of God. This verse reiterates the central petition with increasing emphasis and builds toward the culmination.
Church Fathers on Psalms 67:5
1. Your Love remembers, that in two Psalms, which have been already treated of, we have stirred up our soul to bless the Lord, and with godly chant have said, “Bless thou, O my soul, the Lord.” If therefore we have stirred up our soul in those Psalms to bless the Lord, in this Psalm is well said, “May God have pity on us, and bless us” Psalm 66:1. Let our soul bless the Lord, and let God bless us. When God blesses us, we grow, and when we bless the Lord, we grow, to us both…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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