Psalms 47

1 All ye peoples, clap your hands; shout untoGod with the voice of triumph!

1A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week.

2 For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.

2Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

3 He subdueth the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

3With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

4 He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

4In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.

5 God is gone up amid shouting, Jehovah amid the sound of the trumpet.

5For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together.

6 Sing psalms ofGod, sing psalms; sing psalms unto our King, sing psalms!

6So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved:

7 ForGod is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with understanding.

7Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

8 God reigneth over the nations;God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

8With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.

9 The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, [with] the people of theGod of Abraham. For untoGod [belong] the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted.

9As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

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10We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

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11According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.

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12Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord.

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13Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers.

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14Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.

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15For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.