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Good News Translation
Psalms 47:7
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Sing a song of wisdom,for God is King of the whole earth.
For God is the King of all the eretz. Sing praises with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
God is King of all the earth, so sing a song of praise to him.
For God is king of the whole earth! Sing a well-written song!
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises in a skillful psalm and with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a psalm of wisdom.
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing prayses euery one that hath vnderstanding.
For God is the King of all the earth;Sing praises with a skillful psalm.
For God is King of all the earth; sing profound praises to Him.
the ruler of all the earth! Praise God with songs.
Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our king, sing praises!
For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with understanding.
God is the King of the whole world. Sing songs of praise!
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises unto him.
For God is king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth; sing a psalm for understanding.
For God is kynge of all the earth, O synge prayses vnto him with vnderstondinge.
For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.
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 vnderstanding.
For the Lorde is kyng of all the earth: syng psalmes [all you that haue] skyll.
For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
For God is kyng of al erthe; synge ye wiseli.
For God is the King of all the earth: Sing praises with understanding.
For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.
For God is the King over all the earth. Praise him with a psalm.
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with a well written song.
For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm.
For God is king of all the earth, Sing praises with understanding.
(46-8) For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.
For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
For king of all the earth [is] God, Give praise, O understanding one.
For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a skillful psalm.
Contextual Overview
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
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
Jacob gave the king a farewell blessing and left.
Joseph said to the people, "You see, I have now bought you and your lands for the king. Here is seed for you to sow in your fields.
At the time of harvest you must give one-fifth to the king. You can use the rest for seed and for food for yourselves and your families."
Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."
Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him the city of Hebron as his possession.
Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say to Elkanah, "May the Lord give you other children by this woman to take the place of the one you dedicated to him." After that they would go back home.
So he sent his son Joram to greet King David and congratulate him for his victory over Hadadezer, against whom Toi had fought many times. Joram took David presents made of gold, silver, and bronze.
Joab threw himself to the ground in front of David in respect, and said, "God bless you, Your Majesty! Now I know that you are pleased with me, because you have granted my request."
Then David and all of his men crossed the Jordan. He kissed Barzillai and gave him his blessing, and Barzillai went back 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.
