< Psalms 47 >
1 You people all [over the world], clap your hands for joy! Shout joyfully to [praise] God!
TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. All you peoples, clap the hand, Shout to God with a voice of singing,
2 Yahweh, who is much greater than any other god, is awesome; he is the king who rules over all the world!
For YHWH Most High [is] fearful, A great King over all the earth.
3 He enabled us to defeat [the armies of] the people-groups [that lived in Canaan].
He leads peoples under us, and nations 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 for us our inheritance, The excellence of Jacob that He loves. (Selah)
5 God has gone up [into his temple]. The people shouted joyfully and blew trumpets as Yahweh went up.
God has gone up with a shout, YHWH with the sound of a horn.
6 Sing songs to praise our God! Sing to praise him [DOU]! Sing to God, our king!
Praise God—praise—give praise to our king, praise.
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, Give praise, O understanding one.
8 God sits on his sacred throne as he rules over the people of [all] ethnic groups.
God has reigned over nations, God has sat 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.
Nobles of peoples have been gathered, [With] the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of earth [are] to God, Greatly has He been exalted!