Psalms 47:4
(47:5) He will choose for us our inheritance, the excellency of Jacob which he loveth. Selah.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
In Context
3(47:4) He will subdue people under us, and nations under our feet.
5(47:6) God ascendeth amid a triumphal shout, the Lord, amid the sound of the cornet.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:12A land which the Lord thy God careth for; always are the eyes of the Lord thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Psalms 16:3[But] in the saints who are on the earth, and in the excellent—in them is all my delight.
Isaiah 60:15Instead that thou wast forsaken and hated, without one to pass through [thee], will I render thee an excellency of everlasting, a joy of all generations.
Ezekiel 20:6On the same day I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them forth from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is an ornament among all the countries.
Amos 6:8The Lord Eternal hath sworn by his own existence, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and his palaces do I hate: therefore will I surrender up [to the enemy] the city with all that filleth it.
Nahum 2:2(2:3) For the Lord bringeth back again the excellency of Jacob, as also the excellency of Israel; for the plunderers have plundered them, and have wasted branches of their vines.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 47:2-5
Exhortation to Praise God. 1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. 2 For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. 3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. The psalmist, having his own heart filled with great and good thoughts of God, endeavours to engage all about him in the blessed work of praise, as one convinced that God is… Read the whole commentary →