"Clap your hands, all you peoples;
acclaim GOD with shouts of joy.
For YAHWEH, the Most High, is to be feared;
HE is a great king all over the earth.
GOD ascends amid joyful shouts,
YAHWEH amid trumpet blasts.
Sing praises to GOD, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
GOD is King of all the earth;
sing to HIM a hymn of praise.
For GOD now rules over the nations,
GOD reigns from HIS holy Throne.
- Psalm 47:2-3. 6-7. 8-9
('YOUR kingdom come,' we pray, and yet GOD's kingdom has already come. But we are thinking of our own acceptance of it, our practical acknowledgment of GOD's sovereignty. However, there is always comfort in throwing responsibility on GOD, as nations, their king and military leader once did. Hence the note of joy in this psalm, and GOD 'goes up' to the sound of it. No doubt, this refers to the procession with the Ark, brought up the Temple hill, For us there is another 'ascension.' The glorified body of CHRIST has thrown off the chains of place and time, and has power to lead us always and everywhere. This is surely a psalm for the feast of the Ascension.)
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