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He defeated nations for us and put them under our control.
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He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved.Selah
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God has risen with a shout of joy; the Lord has risen as the trumpets sounded.
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Sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises to our King. Sing praises.
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God is King of all the earth, so sing a song of praise to him.
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God is King over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
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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.
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.