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For the LORDMostHigh is to be 1feared, A 2greatKingoverall the earth.
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He 3subduespeoplesunder us And nationsunder our feet.
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He chooses our 4inheritance for us, The 5glory of Jacobwhom He loves. Selah.
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God has 6ascended with a shout, The LORD, with the 7sound of a trumpet.
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8Singpraises to God, singpraises; Singpraises to 9our King, singpraises.
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For God is the 10King of all the earth; Singpraises11with a skillfulpsalm.
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God12reignsover the nations, Godsits on 13His holythrone.
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The 14princes of the people have assembled themselves as the 15people of the God of Abraham, For the 16shields of the earth belong to God; He is 17highlyexalted.
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.