Psalm 47: Clap Your Hands, All Ye People
A short, energetic call for every nation to praise God as King of all the earth.
Psalm 47 opens with a command to all people to clap their hands and shout to God with the voice of triumph, since He is 'terrible' and 'a great King over all the earth.' The repeated call to 'sing praises' recalls the exuberant worship of Psalms 98:4.
To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. All people clap your hands: sing loude vnto God with a ioyfull voyce.
For the Lord is high, and terrible: a great King ouer all the earth.
He hath subdued the people vnder vs, and the nations vnder our feete.
Hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs: euen the glory of Iaakob whom he loued. Selah.
God is gone vp with triumph, euen the Lord, with the sound of the trumpet.
Sing prayses to God, sing prayses: sing prayses vnto our King, sing prayses.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing prayses euery one that hath vnderstanding.
God reigneth ouer the heathen: God sitteth vpon his holy throne.
The princes of the people are gathered vnto the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the world belong to God: he is greatly to be exalted.