Psalms 47

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

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.

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

How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!

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

He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.

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

He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.

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

God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

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

Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!

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

For God is King of all the earth; sing profound praises to Him.

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

God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

9 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.

The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.