Psalms 47:1

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.

Cross-references · 17

• Ps 98:4Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
• Ps 106:47Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
• Jer 31:7For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’
• Ps 46:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Rev 19:1–2After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• 2 Sam 6:15So David and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
• Isa 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
• Ps 47:5God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
• Ezra 3:11–13They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
• Zech 4:7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”
• 2 Kgs 11:12Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
• 1 Sam 10:24Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted, and said, “Long live the king!”
• 2 Chr 13:15Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
• Luke 19:37–40As he was now getting near, 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 which they had seen,
• Ps 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
• Zeph 3:14Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

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