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Psalm 47 – The Lord’s Universal Sovereignty 
 
For the leader. Of the Korahites. A psalm. 
 
1 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.