Psalms 47:4
He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
In Context
3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
5God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:12a land which the LORD your God cares for. The LORD your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
Psalms 16:3As for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
Isaiah 60:15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
Ezekiel 20:6in that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
Amos 6:8“The Lord GOD has sworn by himself,” says the LORD, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
Nahum 2:2For the LORD restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.
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 →