PREVIOUS CHAPTER - NEXT CHAPTER - HELP - GR VIDEOS - GR YOUTUBE - TWITTER - SD1 YOUTUBE PSALM 47 Ps 47:1-9. Praise is given to God for victory, perhaps that recorded (2Ch 20:20-30); and His dominions over all people, Jews and Gentiles, is asserted. 1. clap . . . hands . . . people--literally, "peoples," or "nations" (compare De 32:43; Ps 18:49; 98:9). 2, 3. His universal sovereignty now exists, and will be made known. 3. under us--that is, His saints; Israel's temporal victories were types of the spiritual conquests of the true Church.
4. He shall . . . inheritance--the heathen to be possessed by His
Church
(Ps 2:8),
as Canaan by the Jews.
5-7. God, victorious over His enemies, reascends to heaven, amid
the triumphant praises of His people, who celebrate His sovereign
dominion. This sovereignty is what the Psalm teaches; hence he adds,
8, 9. The instruction continued.
9. princes--who represent peoples. For--
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