Psalm 47

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Psalm 47

For the music leader. A psalm of the Korahites.

47 Clap your hands, all you people!
    Shout joyfully to God with a joyous shout!
²Because the Lord Most High is awesome,
    he is the great king of the whole world.
³He subdues the nations under us,
    subdues all people beneath our feet.
⁴He chooses our inheritance for us:
    the heights of Jacob, which he loves. Selah

⁵God has gone up with a joyous shout—
    the Lord with the blast of the ram’s horn.
⁶Sing praises to God! Sing praises!
    Sing praises to our king! Sing praises
⁷    because God is king of the whole world!
    Sing praises with a song of instruction!^[a]

⁸God is king over the nations.
    God sits on his holy throne.
⁹The leaders of all people are gathered
    with the people of Abraham’s God
    because the earth’s guardians belong to God;
        God is exalted beyond all.

Footnotes

Psalm 47:7 Or Sing praises with understanding or wisely (cf LXX, Vulg); Heb maskil; see the note at Ps 32.

Deuteronomy 34:1-9

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Moses’ death

34 Then Moses hiked up from the Moabite plains to Mount Nebo, the peak of the Pisgah slope, which faces Jericho. The Lord showed him the whole land: the Gilead region as far as Dan’s territory; ²all the parts belonging to Naphtali along with the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, as well as the entirety of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea; ³also the arid southern plain, and the plain—including the Jericho Valley, Palm City—as far as Zoar.

⁴Then the Lord said to Moses: “This is the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I promised: ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have shown it to you with your own eyes; however, you will not cross over into it.”

⁵Then Moses, the Lord’s servant, died—right there in the land of Moab, according to the Lord’s command. ⁶The Lord buried him in a valley in Moabite country across from Beth-peor. Even now, no one knows where Moses’ grave is.

⁷Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eyesight wasn’t impaired, and his vigor hadn’t diminished a bit.

⁸Back down in the Moabite plains, the Israelites mourned Moses’ death for thirty days. At that point, the time for weeping and for mourning Moses was over.

⁹Joshua, Nun’s son, was filled with wisdom because Moses had placed his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to Joshua, and they did exactly what the Lord commanded Moses.

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John 16:4-11

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⁴But I have said these things to you so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them.

I go away

“I didn’t say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵But now I go away to the one who sent me. None of you ask me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶Yet because I have said these things to you, you are filled with sorrow. ⁷I assure you that it is better for you that I go away. If I don’t go away, the Companion^[a] won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸When he comes, he will show the world it was wrong about sin, righteousness, and judgment. ⁹He will show the world it was wrong about sin because they don’t believe in me. ¹⁰He will show the world it was wrong about righteousness because I’m going to the Father and you won’t see me anymore. ¹¹He will show the world it was wrong about judgment because this world’s ruler stands condemned.