Mazmur 47

1 Mazmur kaum Korah. Untuk pemimpin kor. Bertepuktanganlah dengan gembira, hai segala bangsa! Pujilah Allah dengan sorak-sorai!

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

2 Sebab TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi adalah dahsyat, Raja Agung yang menguasai seluruh bumi.

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

3 Ia memberi kita kemenangan atas bangsa-bangsa, menjadikan kita penguasa atas suku-suku bangsa.

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

4 Ia memilih bagi kita tanah pusaka kita, kebanggaan bangsa yang dikasihi-Nya.

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 Allah sudah menaiki takhta-Nya, diiringi sorak-sorai dan bunyi sangkakala.

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

6 Nyanyikanlah pujian bagi Allah, nyanyikan pujian bagi Raja kita!

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

7 Allah adalah Raja di seluruh bumi, pujilah Dia dengan nyanyian penuh seni!

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

8 Allah duduk di atas takhta-Nya yang suci; Ia memerintah atas bangsa-bangsa.

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

9 Para pemimpin bangsa-bangsa bergabung sebagai umat Allah pujaan Abraham. Sebab Allah adalah Raja segala raja, Ia sangat agung dan mulia.

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.