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Psalms 47

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Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph! For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth. He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet. He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our King! Sing praises! For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne. The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!

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Psalms 47:6

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"Sing praises to our God, sing praises." Whom as Man mocked they, who from God were alienated. "Sing praises to our God." For He is not Man only, but God. Man of the seed of David, God the Lord of David, of the Jews having flesh. "Whose" (saith the Apostle) "are the fathers, of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came." Of the Jews then is Christ, but according to the flesh. But who is this Christ who is of the Jews according to the flesh? …

ON THE PSALMS - Psalm 47 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

If therefore He is most high, "sing praises to our God," with the mouth; "sing praises to our King," with the heart. 1 Cor. 14: "I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the mind." "Because He is King." Next he shows that He is a great King, and he shows this in reverse order. For first he induces them to sing praises to the King. Second, he assigns the cause. Third, he makes it manifest. I say therefore: sing praises to God, but again, sing praises to the King, because He is great. …

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