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God has gone up with a shout, The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Psalms 47:5 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
  • KJV God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
  • BSB God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.
  • NASB ¶God has ascended with a shout, The Lord, with the sound of a trumpet.
  • NLT God has ascended with a mighty shout. The Lord has ascended with trumpets blaring.

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Quick answer

God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. It matters because it celebrates God's triumphant ascent as King.

Overview

This pictures God ascending to His throne amid shouts and trumpet blasts, as a victorious king is enthroned. Many Christian interpreters have seen here a foreshadowing of Christ's ascension, when the risen Lord went up in triumph to be enthroned at the Father's right hand, reigning over all.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Ps 68:33To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
  • 1 Cor 15:52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
  • Ps 24:7–10Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
  • 1 Th 4:16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
  • Ps 78:65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
  • Num 10:1–10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Rev 8:6–13The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
  • Num 23:21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
  • Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
  • Ps 68:24–25They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
  • Josh 6:5It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the city wall shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
  • Ps 150:3Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!
  • 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.
  • 1 Chr 15:24Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
  • 1 Chr 15:28Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
  • Ps 98:6With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
  • Luke 24:51–53While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.
  • Ps 68:17–19The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
  • 1 Chr 16:42and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
  • 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
  • Ps 81:3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
  • Acts 1:5–11For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
  • Eph 4:8–10Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 47:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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