Psalms 47

1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

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

2 For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

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

3 He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

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

4 He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. (Selah)

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 God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

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

6 Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our King! Sing praises!

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

7 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

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

8 God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

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

9 The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!

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.