PSALMS 47

1 You people all over the world, clap your hands for joy! Shout joyfully to praise God! 2 Yahweh, who is much greater than any other god, is awesome; he is the king who rules over all the world! 3 He enabled us to defeat the armies of the people-groups that lived in Canaan. 4 He chose for us this land where we now live; we Israeli people [MTY], whom he loves, are proud that we own this land. (Think about that!) 5 God has gone up into his temple. The people shouted joyfully and blew trumpets as Yahweh went up. 6 Sing songs to praise our God! Sing to praise him [DOU]! Sing to God, our king! 7 God is the one who rules over everything in the world; sing a psalm to him! 8 God sits on his sacred throne as he rules over the people of all ethnic groups. 9 The rulers of those people-groups gather as God’s people, the people descended from Abraham, do. But God has more power than the weapons/shields of all the kings on the earth; ◄he is greatly honored/people honor him► everywhere.