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Psalms 47

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 46 Psalms 48

¹Oh clap your hands, all you nations.

²For Yahweh Most High is awesome.

³He subdues nations under us,

⁴He chooses our inheritance for us,

⁵God has gone up with a shout,

⁶Sing praises to God! Sing praises!

⁷For God is the King of all the earth.

⁸God reigns over the nations.

⁹The princes of the peoples are gathered together,

¹Oh clap your hands, all you nations.

²For Yahweh Most High is awesome.

³He subdues nations under us,

⁴He chooses our inheritance for us,

⁵God has gone up with a shout,

⁶Sing praises to God! Sing praises!

⁷For God is the King of all the earth.

⁸God reigns over the nations.

⁹The princes of the peoples are gathered together,

¹Oh clap your hands, all you nations.

²For Yahweh Most High is awesome.

³He subdues nations under us,

⁴He chooses our inheritance for us,

⁵God has gone up with a shout,

⁶Sing praises to God! Sing praises!

⁷For God is the King of all the earth.

⁸God reigns over the nations.

⁹The princes of the peoples are gathered together,

In context

Psalms 47 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

⁷Yahweh of Armies is with us.

⁸Come, see Yahweh’s works,

⁹He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.

¹⁰“Be still, and know that I am God.

¹¹Yahweh of Armies is with us.

Immediately after

¹Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised,

²Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,

³God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

⁴For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,

⁵They saw it, then they were amazed.

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,