O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
- BSB For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
- NKJV Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
- NASB Clap your hands, all you peoples; Shout to God with a voice of joy.
- NLT Come, everyone! Clap your hands! Shout to God with joyful praise!
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Quick answer
All nations are called to clap their hands and shout joyfully to God. It matters because God is worthy of exuberant praise from every people.
Overview
Psalm 47 opens with a global call to worship, summoning all peoples to celebrate God with joyful acclaim. The clapping and shouting express triumphant praise fitting for a king. This universal invitation anticipates the gospel going to all nations, gathering worshipers for the King who reigns over the whole earth.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 98:4Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
- Ps 106:47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
- Jer 31:7For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
- Ps 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- Rev 19:1–2And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
- Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- 2 Sam 6:15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
- Isa 55:12For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
- Ps 47:5God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
- Ezra 3:11–13And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
- Zech 4:7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
- 2 Kgs 11:12And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
- 1 Sam 10:24And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
- 2 Chr 13:15Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
- Luke 19:37–40And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
- Ps 98:8Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
- Zeph 3:14Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
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