Psalms 47

1 Unto the end. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. All nations, clap your hands. Shout joyfully to God with a voice of exultation.

You people all [over the world], clap your hands for joy! Shout joyfully to [praise] God!

2 For the Lord is exalted and terrible: a great King over all the earth.

Yahweh, who is much greater than any other god, is awesome; he is the king who rules over all the world!

3 He has subjected the peoples to us and subdued the nations under our feet.

He enabled us to defeat [the armies of] the people-groups [that lived in Canaan].

4 He has chosen us for his inheritance: the splendor of Jacob, whom he has loved.

He chose for us this land where we now live; we Israeli people [MTY], whom he loves, are proud that we own this land.

5 God ascends with jubilation, and the Lord with the voice of the trumpet.

God has gone up [into his temple]. The people shouted joyfully and blew trumpets as Yahweh went up.

6 Sing psalms to our God, sing psalms. Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.

Sing songs to praise our God! Sing to praise him [DOU]! Sing to God, our king!

7 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing psalms wisely.

God is the one who rules over everything in the world; sing a psalm to him!

8 God will reign over the peoples. God sits upon his holy throne.

God sits on his sacred throne as he rules over the people of [all] ethnic groups.

9 The leaders of the peoples have been gathered together by the God of Abraham. For the strong gods of the earth have been exceedingly exalted.

The rulers of those people-groups gather as God’s people, the people [descended] from Abraham, [do]. But God has more power than the weapons/shields [of all the kings] on the earth; (he is greatly honored/people honor him) everywhere.