Psalm 47 – The Lord’s Universal Sovereignty

For the leader. Of the Korahites. A psalm.

47 Clap your hands, all you peoples:

shout to God in ringing cries.

2 For the Lord is most high and dread,

a great king over all the earth.

3 He subdues the peoples under us,

the nations under our feet;

4 he chooses our heritage for us,

the glory of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

5 God is gone up with a shout,

the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

6 Sing praise to our God, sing praises:

sing praise to our king, sing praises.

7 For king of all earth is he:

praise God in a skilful song.

8 God is king over all the nations,

God sits on his holy throne.

9 Princes of nations gather

with the people of Abraham’s God:

for the shields of the earth are God’s;

greatly exalted is he.