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New Living Translation

Psalms 47:7

For God is the King over all the earth. Praise him with a psalm.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Music;   Praise;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Earth;   Exaltation;   Gentiles/heathen;   God;   Government;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Maschil;   Providence;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Maschil;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mas'chil;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joy;  

Parallel Translations

English Revised Version
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Update Bible Version
For God is the King of all the earth: Sing praises with understanding.
New Century Version
God is King of all the earth, so sing a song of praise to him.
New English Translation
For God is king of the whole earth! Sing a well-written song!
Webster's Bible Translation
For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
World English Bible
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
Amplified Bible
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises in a skillful psalm and with understanding.
English Standard Version
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For God is kyng of al erthe; synge ye wiseli.
Berean Standard Bible
For God is King of all the earth; sing profound praises to Him.
Contemporary English Version
the ruler of all the earth! Praise God with songs.
American Standard Version
For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding.
Bible in Basic English
For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.
Complete Jewish Bible
Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our king, sing praises!
Darby Translation
For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with understanding.
Easy-to-Read Version
God is the King of the whole world. Sing songs of praise!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
King James Version (1611)
For God is the King of all the earth, sing ye praises with vnderstanding.
New Life Bible
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with a well written song.
New Revised Standard
For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For God is the King of all the earth: sing prayses euery one that hath vnderstanding.
George Lamsa Translation
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises unto him.
Good News Translation
God is king over all the world; praise him with songs!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For God is king of all the earth, Sing praises with understanding.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(46-8) For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.
Revised Standard Version
For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde is kyng of all the earth: syng psalmes [all you that haue] skyll.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding.
Christian Standard Bible®
Sing a song of wisdom,for God is King of the whole earth.
Hebrew Names Version
For God is the King of all the eretz. Sing praises with understanding.
King James Version
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Lexham English Bible
For God is king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
Literal Translation
For God is the King of all the earth; sing a psalm for understanding.
Young's Literal Translation
For king of all the earth [is] God, Give praise, O understanding one.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For God is kynge of all the earth, O synge prayses vnto him with vnderstondinge.
New American Standard Bible
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a psalm of wisdom.
New King James Version
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a skillful psalm.
Legacy Standard Bible
For God is the King of all the earth;Sing praises with a skillful psalm.

Contextual Overview

5 God has ascended with a mighty shout. The Lord has ascended with trumpets blaring. 6 Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises! 7 For God is the King over all the earth. Praise him with a psalm. 8 God reigns above the nations, sitting on his holy throne. 9 The rulers of the world have gathered together with the people of the God of Abraham. For all the kings of the earth belong to God. He is highly honored everywhere.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

King: Psalms 47:2, Psalms 47:8, Zechariah 14:9, Revelation 11:15

sing: 1 Corinthians 14:14, 1 Corinthians 14:15, Colossians 3:16

with understanding: or, every one that hath understanding

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 10:28 - every one Psalms 5:2 - my King Psalms 9:11 - Sing Psalms 22:28 - General Psalms 48:2 - the city Psalms 66:2 - General Psalms 95:1 - sing Psalms 98:6 - the king Psalms 103:1 - all that Psalms 105:2 - Sing unto Psalms 147:7 - General Isaiah 2:16 - the ships Hosea 13:10 - I will be thy king Matthew 6:13 - thine Mark 14:26 - sung Ephesians 5:19 - making Colossians 3:23 - whatsoever Revelation 19:6 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 35:27
So Jacob returned to his father, Isaac, in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners.
Genesis 47:10
Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh again before leaving his court.
Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said to the people, "Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. I will provide you with seed so you can plant the fields.
Genesis 47:24
Then when you harvest it, one-fifth of your crop will belong to Pharaoh. You may keep the remaining four-fifths as seed for your fields and as food for you, your households, and your little ones."
Exodus 12:32
Take your flocks and herds, as you said, and be gone. Go, but bless me as you leave."
Joshua 14:13
So Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land.
1 Samuel 2:20
Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the Lord give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the Lord ."
2 Samuel 8:10
he sent his son Joram to congratulate King David for his successful campaign. Hadadezer and Toi had been enemies and were often at war. Joram presented David with many gifts of silver, gold, and bronze.
2 Samuel 14:22
Joab bowed with his face to the ground in deep respect and said, "At last I know that I have gained your approval, my lord the king, for you have granted me this request!"
2 Samuel 19:39
So all the people crossed the Jordan with the king. After David had blessed Barzillai and kissed him, Barzillai returned to his own home.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For God [is] the King of all the earth,.... Or "the king of all the earth [is] God" e; the same that is ascended into heaven, and is King of saints, even Christ Jesus; and so he will appear to be, especially in the latter day; :-;

sing ye praises with understanding; or, as De Dieu renders it, to him that understandeth, that is, to God the only wise, whose understanding is infinite; even to Christ, who, as God, knows all things; and, as man and Mediator, is of quick understanding, and has all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in him; so R. Obadiah, "sing of him who understands"; or, "sing ye praises, O everyone that understandeth" f; that is, how to sing, as everyone does not; this is the sense of Aben Ezra and Kimchi; or "with understanding", as we render it; with understanding of what is sung. The Apostle Paul seems to refer to this passage in 1 Corinthians 14:15. The Targum renders it, "with a good understanding".

e So Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis. f זמרו משכיל "canite, intelligens", Montanus i.e. "unusquisque", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For God is the King of all the earth - He has shown himself to be a universal sovereign. All nations are subject to him, and he has a claim to universal praise.

Sing ye praises with understanding - Margin, Every one “that hath understanding.” Neither the text here, however, nor the margin, expresses the true idea of the original. The Hebrew is, “Sing a Maschil” - משׂכיל maśkı̂yl; that is, Sing, or play, a didactic psalm or tune; that is, a song or ode adapted to convey valuable lessons of instruction. See the word explained in the notes at the title to Psalms 32:1-11. The idea is, that the occasion was one on which “such” a psalm or song would be especially appropriate; an occasion on which great lessons or truths had been taught by the dealings of God, which it became his people now to set forth in a becoming manner. Those lessons or truths pertained to the fact that God is the great King over all the earth, or that he is a sovereign among the nations: a truth of immense importance to mankind, and a truth which the occasion on which the psalm was composed was especially adapted to bring to view.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 47:7. For God is the King of all the earth — He is not your King only, but the King of the universe. He has no limited power, no confined dominion.

Sing ye praises with understanding — זמרו משכיל zammeru maskil, sing an instructive song. Let sense and sound go together. Let your hearts and heads go with your voices. Understand what you sing; and feel what you understand; and let the song be what will give instruction in righteousness to them that hear it. [Anglo-Saxon], Sing wisely. - Anglo-Saxon. Multitudes sing foolishly.


 
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