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New Century Version NCV
1 Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.
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Clap your hands, all you people. Shout to God with joy.
2 For the LORD Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth.
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The Lord Most High is wonderful.
3 He subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet.
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He defeated nations for us and put them under our control.
4 He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.
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He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved.Selah
5 God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.
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God has risen with a shout of joy; the Lord has risen as the trumpets sounded.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises.
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Sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises to our King. Sing praises.
7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise.
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God is King of all the earth, so sing a song of praise to him.
8 God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.
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God is King over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
9 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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The leaders of the nations meet with the people of the God of Abraham, because the leaders of the earth belong to God. He is supreme. Jerusalem, the City of God A psalm of the sons of Korah.