Psalms 47

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

O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the 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!

For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

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

He shall subdue the people under us, and 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 shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. (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 praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

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

For God is the King of all the earth: sing all of you praises with understanding.

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

God reigns over the heathen: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.

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 princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.