Psalm 47:2
New International Version
For the LORD Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth.

New Living Translation
For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the earth.

English Standard Version
For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.

Berean Standard Bible
How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!

King James Bible
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

New King James Version
For the LORD Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth.

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD Most High is to be feared, A great King over all the earth.

NASB 1995
For the LORD Most High is to be feared, A great King over all the earth.

NASB 1977
For the LORD Most High is to be feared, A great King over all the earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh Most High is fearsome, A great King over all the earth.

Amplified Bible
For the LORD Most High is to be feared [and worshiped with awe-inspired reverence and obedience]; He is a great King over all the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
For the LORD, the Most High, is awe-inspiring, a great King over the whole earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For Yahweh, the Most High, is awe-inspiring, a great King over all the earth.

American Standard Version
For Jehovah Most High is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because LORD JEHOVAH is exalted and awesome; he is The Great King over all the Earth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD Most High is fearsome, the ruler of all the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

English Revised Version
For the LORD Most High is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We must fear the LORD, the Most High. He is the great king of the whole earth.

Good News Translation
The LORD, the Most High, is to be feared; he is a great king, ruling over all the world.

International Standard Version
For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the LORD is most high, awful; A great King over all the earth.

Literal Standard Version
For YHWH Most High [is] fearful, | A great King over all the earth.

Majority Standard Bible
How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!

New American Bible
For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, the great king over all the earth,

NET Bible
For the sovereign LORD is awe-inspiring; he is the great king who rules the whole earth!

New Revised Standard Version
For the LORD, the Most High, is awesome, a great king over all the earth.

New Heart English Bible
For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

World English Bible
For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
For Jehovah Most High is fearful, A great king over all the earth.

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Context
Clap Your Hands, All You Peoples
1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph. 2How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth! 3He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:21
Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

Nehemiah 1:5
Then I said: "O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

Psalm 66:3
Say to God, "How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

Psalm 66:5
Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.

Psalm 68:35
O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!

Psalm 76:12
He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

Psalm 89:7
In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.


Treasury of Scripture

For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

is terrible

Psalm 65:5
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

Psalm 66:3-5
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee…

Psalm 68:35
O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

a great

Psalm 47:7
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

Psalm 22:27-29
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee…

Psalm 95:3
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

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Psalm 47
1. The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ.














(2) Most high.--Or, possibly, a predicate, is exalted.

Terrible.--Literally, feared. (Comp. 2Chronicles 20:29).

Verse 2. - For the Lord Most High is terrible (comp. Deuteronomy 7:21; and see also Psalm 65:5; Psalm 68:35; Psalm 76:7-9). God is "terrible" - i.e. awful to contemplate-on account of his vast power and his absolute holiness. He is a great King over all the earth. Not only over Israel, or over the nations which David has conquered, but ever every nation on the face of the earth (comp. Psalm 95:3, 4; Psalm 96:10; Psalm 97:1, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
How
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

awesome [is]
נוֹרָ֑א (nō·w·rā)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

the Most High,
עֶלְי֣וֹן (‘el·yō·wn)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5945: An elevation, lofty, as title, the Supreme

the great
גָּ֝דוֹל (gā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

King
מֶ֥לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

over
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the earth!
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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