Psalms 47

Psalms 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved.

He hath graciously made choice of us for his peculiar people, and of the land of Canaan for an inheritance for us; and hath

Psalms 47:5

God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

As the ark of God is gone with much triumph and joy to be placed in the temple of the Lord, so the Son of God is with much rejoicing of angels and men, both received into his Evangelical Church on earth, and afterwards taken up into the glory of heaven.

Psalms 47:9

For the shields of the earth belong unto God.

Unto God only belongeth the safe and gracious protection of his Church and children; and he accordingly raiseth up and defendeth those princes and governors, under whose rule his Church is preserved in peace.