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Psalm 47  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

Psalm 47

God’s Rule over the Nations

To the leader. Of the Korahites. A Psalm.

1 Clap your hands, all you peoples;
    shout to God with loud songs of joy.(A)
2 For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome,
    a great king over all the earth.(B)
3 He subdued peoples under us
    and nations under our feet.(C)
4 He chose our heritage for us,
    the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah(D)

5 God has gone up with a shout,
    the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.(E)
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises;
    sing praises to our King, sing praises.(F)
7 For God is the king of all the earth;
    sing praises with a psalm.[a](G)

8 God is king over the nations;
    God sits on his holy throne.(H)
9 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.(I)

Footnotes

  1. 47.7 Heb Maskil

Cross references

  1. 47.1 : Ps 98.8; 106.47; Isa 55.12
  2. 47.2 : Deut 7.21
  3. 47.3 : Ps 18.47
  4. 47.4 : 1 Pet 1.4
  5. 47.5 : Ps 68.33; 98.6
  6. 47.6 : Ps 68.4; 89.18
  7. 47.7 : 1 Cor 14.15
  8. 47.8 : 1 Chr 16.31
  9. 47.9 : Ps 72.11; 89.18; 97.9; Rom 4.11, 12
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