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We must fear the LORD, the Most High. He is the great king of the whole earth.
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He brings people under our authority and [puts] nations under our feet.
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He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah
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God has gone up with a joyful shout. The LORD has gone up with the sound of a ram's horn.
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Make music to praise God. Play music for him! Make music to praise our king. Play music for him!
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God is the king of the whole earth. Make your best music for him!
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God rules the nations. He sits upon his holy throne.
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The influential people from the nations gather together as the people of the God of Abraham. The rulers of the earth belong to God. He rules everything.
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.