Psalms 47

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

For the leader. Of the Korahites. A psalm. Clap your hands, all you peoples: shout to God in ringing cries.

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

For the Lord is most high and dread, a great king over all the earth.

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

He subdues the peoples under us, the 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 our heritage for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loves. (Selah)

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

God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

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

Sing praise to our God, sing praises: sing praise to our king, sing praises.

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

For king of all earth is he: praise God in a skilful song.

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

God is king over all the nations, God sits 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.

Princes of nations gather with the people of Abraham’s God: for the shields of the earth are God’s; greatly exalted is he.