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Psalms 47
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1A Psalm of praise for the sons of Core on the second [day] of the week.
1O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
2Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
2For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
3The city of the great King is well planted [on] the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, [on] the sides of the north.
3He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
4God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her.
4He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
5For, behold, the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together.
5God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
6They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved.
6Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
7Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.
7For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
8Thou wilt break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.
8God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
9As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.
9The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.