Psalm 47:8
New International Version
God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.

New Living Translation
God reigns above the nations, sitting on his holy throne.

English Standard Version
God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.

Berean Standard Bible
God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

King James Bible
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

New King James Version
God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.

New American Standard Bible
God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.

NASB 1995
God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.

NASB 1977
God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.

Legacy Standard Bible
God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.

Amplified Bible
God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.

Christian Standard Bible
God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

American Standard Version
God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy throne.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
God reigns over the nations. God sits upon his holy throne.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.

Contemporary English Version
God rules the nations from his sacred throne.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

English Revised Version
God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy throne.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
God rules the nations. He sits upon his holy throne.

Good News Translation
God sits on his sacred throne; he rules over the nations.

International Standard Version
God is king over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.

JPS Tanakh 1917
God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon His holy throne.

Literal Standard Version
God has reigned over nations, God has sat on His holy throne,

Majority Standard Bible
God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

New American Bible
God rules over the nations; God sits upon his holy throne.

NET Bible
God reigns over the nations! God sits on his holy throne!

New Revised Standard Version
God is king over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.

New Heart English Bible
God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

Webster's Bible Translation
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

World English Bible
God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

Young's Literal Translation
God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Clap Your Hands, All You Peoples
7For God is King of all the earth; sing profound praises to Him. 8God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne. 9The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.…

Cross References
Revelation 4:9
And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne who lives forever and ever,

Revelation 4:10
the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

1 Chronicles 16:31
Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, 'The LORD reigns!'

Psalm 22:28
For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.

Psalm 67:4
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples justly and lead the nations of the earth. Selah

Psalm 97:2
Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne's foundation.

Psalm 103:19
The LORD has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.


Treasury of Scripture

God reigns over the heathen: God sits on the throne of his holiness.

reigneth

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 93:1
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Psalm 96:10
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

throne

Psalm 9:4
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

Psalm 45:6,7
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre…

Psalm 48:1
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

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














Verse 8. - God reigneth over the heathen. God had manifested his kingly power over the heathen by subduing great numbers of them, and making them subject to Israel. He would one day manifest it still more by bringing all nations into his Church. God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. The throne from which he exercises a just, a righteous, and a holy rule.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
God
אֱ֭לֹהִים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

reigns
מָלַ֣ךְ (mā·laḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel

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

the nations;
גּוֹיִ֑ם (gō·w·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

God
אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

is seated
יָשַׁ֤ב ׀ (yā·šaḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

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

His holy
קָדְשֽׁוֹ׃ (qā·ḏə·šōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

throne.
כִּסֵּ֬א (kis·sê)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3678: Seat of honor, throne


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