Psalm 47-48

Christian Standard Bible

Psalm 47

God Our King

For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Clap your hands, all you peoples;^(A)
shout to God with a jubilant cry.^(B)
²For the Lord, the Most High, is awe-inspiring,
a great King over the whole earth.^(C)
³He subdues peoples under us
and nations under our feet.^(D)
⁴He chooses for us our inheritance—
the pride of Jacob, whom he loves.^(E)Selah

⁵God ascends among shouts of joy,
the Lord, with the sound of a ram’s horn.^(F)
⁶Sing praise to God, sing praise;
sing praise to our King, sing praise!^(G)
⁷Sing a song of wisdom,^[a]
for God is King of the whole earth.^(H)

⁸God reigns over the nations;
God is seated on his holy throne.^(I)
⁹The nobles of the peoples have assembled
with the people of the God of Abraham.^(J)
For the leaders^[b] of the earth belong to God;
he is greatly exalted.^(K)

Psalm 48

Zion Exalted

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹The Lord is great and highly praised
in the city of our God.^(L)
His holy mountain, ²rising splendidly,
is the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion—the summit of Zaphon—
is the city of the great King.^(M)
³God is known as a stronghold
in its citadels.^(N)

⁴Look! The kings assembled;
they advanced together.^(O)
⁵They looked and froze with fear;
they fled in terror.^(P)
⁶Trembling seized them there,
agony like that of a woman in labor,^(Q)
⁷as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish
with the east wind.^(R)

⁸Just as we heard, so we have seen
in the city of the Lord of Armies,
in the city of our God;
God will establish it forever.^(S)Selah

⁹God, within your temple,
we contemplate your faithful love.^(T)
¹⁰Like your name, God, so your praise
reaches to the ends of the earth;^(U)
your right hand is filled with justice.^(V)
¹¹Mount Zion is glad.
Judah’s villages^[c] rejoice
because of your judgments.^(W)

¹²Go around Zion, encircle it;
count its towers,
¹³note its ramparts; tour its citadels
so that you can tell a future generation:^(X)
¹⁴“This God, our God forever and ever—
he will always lead us.”^[d]^(Y)

Footnotes

47:7 Or Sing a maskil
47:9 Lit shields
48:11 Lit daughters
48:14 Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read over death

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