Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Clap your hands for joy, all peoples! Praise God with loud songs!
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To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
2 The Lord, the Most High, is to be feared; he is a great king, ruling over all the world.
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For the LORD, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.
3 He gave us victory over the peoples; he made us rule over the nations.
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He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
4 He chose for us the land where we live, the proud possession of his people, whom he loves.
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He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. [Selah]
5 God goes up to his throne. There are shouts of joy and the blast of trumpets, as the Lord goes up.
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God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praise to God; sing praise to our king!
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Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7 God is king over all the world; praise him with songs!
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For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
8 God sits on his sacred throne; he rules over the nations.
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God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
9 The rulers of the nations assemble with the people of the God of Abraham. More powerful than all armies is he; he rules supreme.
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The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.