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Psalms 47

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O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. The 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.

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Psalms 47:7

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Augustine of Hippo

"For God is the King of all the earth" [Psalm 47:7]. What? And before was He not God of all the earth? Is He not God of both heaven and earth, since by Him surely were all things made? Who can say that He is not his God? But not all men acknowledged Him their God; and where He was acknowledged, there only, so to say, He was God. …

Exposition on Psalm 47 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

And he shows that praise is fitting, because He is "God, king of all the earth." And therefore you inhabitants of the earth should sing praises to Him. And he says "of all the earth" -- not of Judea only, or of Greece, but of the whole world. "But sing praises wisely," that is, with discernment. And sing praises not only with the mouth, but with a heart renewed interiorly; because "praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner," as is said in Sir. 15. Likewise, not with a troubled mind. Jas. …

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