Psalm 47:2 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

² For dreadful is the Lord most high, great King the earth throughout.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For the LORD most high is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For the Lord Most High excites terror, awe, and dread; He is a great King over all the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For Jehovah Most High is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.

Common English Bible

² Because the LORD Most High is awesome, he is the great king of the whole world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The Lord is great and exceedingly praiseworthy, in the city of our God, on his holy mountain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Psalm 47:2 Cross References

Psalm 145:6

Men of thine acts the might shall show, thine acts that dreadful are; And I, thy glory to advance, thy greatness will declare.

Psalm 47:7

For God is King of all the earth; with knowledge praise express.

Psalm 65:5

O God of our salvation, thou, in thy righteousness, By fearful works unto our pray'rs thine answer dost express: Therefore the ends of all the earth, and those afar that be Upon the sea, their confidence, O Lord, will place in thee.

Psalm 68:35

Thou'rt from thy temple dreadful, Lord; Isr'el's own God is he, Who gives his people strength and pow'r: O let God blessed be.

Psalm 76:12

By him the sp'rits shall be cut off of those that princes are: Unto the kings that are on earth he fearful doth appear.

Psalm 95:3

For God, a great God, and great King, above all gods he is.

Psalm 99:3

Thy great and dreadful name (for it is holy) let them bless.