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Psalms 47:7

For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.

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

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.
English Standard Version
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
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!
Amplified Bible
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises in a skillful psalm and with understanding.
New American Standard Bible
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a psalm of wisdom.
World English Bible
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For God is the King of all the earth: sing prayses euery one that hath vnderstanding.
Legacy Standard Bible
For God is the King of all the earth;Sing praises with a skillful psalm.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For God is kynge of all the earth, O synge prayses vnto him with vnderstondinge.
American Standard Version
For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding.
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.
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.
English Revised Version
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For God is kyng of al erthe; synge ye wiseli.
Update Bible Version
For God is the King of all the earth: Sing praises with understanding.
Webster's Bible Translation
For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
New King James Version
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.
New Living Translation
For God is the King over all the earth. Praise him with a psalm.
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.
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!
Young's Literal Translation
For king of all the earth [is] God, Give praise, O understanding one.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a skillful psalm.

Contextual Overview

5 God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn. 6 Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise. 7 For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge. 8 God is the ruler over the nations; God is on the high seat of his holy rule. 9 The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.

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
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.
Genesis 47:10
And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him.
Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.
Genesis 47:24
And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.
Exodus 12:32
And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.
Joshua 14:13
And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.
1 Samuel 2:20
And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.
2 Samuel 8:10
He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass:
2 Samuel 14:22
Then Joab, falling down on his face on the earth, gave the king honour and blessing; and Joab said, Today it is clear to your servant that I have grace in your eyes, my lord king, because the king has given effect to the request of his servant.
2 Samuel 19:39
Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.

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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