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For Yahweh Most High [is] awesome, a great king over all the earth.
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He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet.
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He chooses for us our inheritance, the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
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God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with [the] sound of a trumpet.
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Sing praises [to] God, sing praises. Sing praises to our king, sing praises.
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For God [is] king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
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God reigns over nations; God sits on his holy throne.
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[The] princes of [the] peoples are gathered together [with] the people of Abraham's God. For [the] shields of [the] earth belong to God. He is very exalted.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Thus psalm is thought by some to be written on occasion of the ark being brought from the house of Obededom to the city of David, to the place he had prepared for it; which was attended with singing and dancing, with shouting, and the sound of a trumpet, 2 Samuel 6:12; but it rather seems to be penned on account of the ascension of Christ to heaven, prophetically spoken of in this psalm; and of the spread of the Gospel, and the conquests it made in the Gentile world upon Christ's ascension; as the whole psalm shows: and even Aben Ezra and Kimchi apply it to the times of the Messiah; and so do some of their most ancient writers, who particularly interpret Psalm 47:5 of him, as may be seen in the note upon it.
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