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For the LORD Elyon is awesome. He is a great King over all the eretz.
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He subdues nations under us, And peoples under our feet.
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He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Ya`akov whom he loved. Selah.
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God has gone up with a shout, The LORD with the sound of a shofar.
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Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
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For God is the King of all the eretz. Sing praises with understanding.
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God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
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The princes of the peoples are gathered together, The people of the God of Avraham. For the shields of the eretz belong to God. He is greatly 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.