GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
1 Clap your hands, all you people. Shout to God with a loud, joyful song.
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Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.
2 We must fear the LORD, the Most High. He is the great king of the whole earth.
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For the LORD Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth.
3 He brings people under our authority and [puts] nations under our feet.
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He subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet.
4 He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah
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He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.
5 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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God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.
6 Make music to praise God. Play music for him! Make music to praise our king. Play music for him!
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Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises.
7 God is the king of the whole earth. Make your best music for him!
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For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise.
8 God rules the nations. He sits upon his holy throne.
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God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.
9 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.
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The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the God of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted.
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