Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
God reigneth over the Heathen; God sitteth upon his holy seat.
New American Standard Bible
God
King James Version
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
Holman Bible
God is seated on His holy throne.
International Standard Version
God is king over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.
A Conservative Version
God reigns over the nations. God sits upon his holy throne.
American Standard Version
God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy throne.
Amplified
God reigns over the nations;
God sits on His holy throne.
Bible in Basic English
God is the ruler over the nations; God is on the high seat of his holy rule.
Darby Translation
God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
Julia Smith Translation
God reigned over the nations; God sat upon his holy throne.
King James 2000
God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
God reigns over nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Modern King James verseion
God reigns over the nations, God sits on the throne of His holiness.
NET Bible
God reigns over the nations! God sits on his holy throne!
New Heart English Bible
God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
The Emphasized Bible
God, hath become king, over the nations, God, hath taken his seat upon his holy throne.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,
Themes
Earth » Earth belonging to the lord
Exaltation » The lord being exalted
Gentiles/heathen » The lord being the God of the gentiles/heathen
the Heathen » God » Rules over
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 47:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our King
7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises unto him with understanding. 8 God reigneth over the Heathen; God sitteth upon his holy seat. 9 The princes of the people are gathered together unto the God of Abraham; for God is far higher exalted, than the mighty lords of the earth.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:31
The heaven rejoice and the earth be glad, and let men tell among the nations that the LORD is a king.
Psalm 9:4
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou art set in the throne that judgest right.
Psalm 22:27-29
All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be turned unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the people shall worship before him.
Psalm 45:6-7
Thy seat, O God, endureth forever: the scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter.
Psalm 48:1
{A Song of a Psalm of the children of Korah} Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.
Psalm 89:14
Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat; mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalm 93:1
The LORD is king, and hath put on glorious apparel; the LORD hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength: he hath made the round world so sure, that it cannot be moved.
Psalm 94:20
Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?
Psalm 96:10
Tell it out among the Heathen, that the LORD is king: and that it is he who hath made the round world so fast, that it can not be moved, and how that he shall judge the people righteously. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad. {TYNDALE: He established the earth that it cannot move. The heaven rejoice and the earth be glad. And let men tell among the nations that the LORD is a king.}
Psalm 97:1
The LORD is king. The earth may be glad thereof; yea, the multitude of the isles may be glad thereof.
Psalm 99:1
The LORD is king, be the people never so inpatient; he sitteth upon the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet.
Psalm 110:6
He shall be judge among the heathen; he shall fill them with dead bodies, and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries.
Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore go boldly unto the seat of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Revelation 19:6
And I heard the voice of much people, even as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of strong thunderings, saying, "Hallelujah, for God omnipotent reigneth.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white seat and him that sat on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found.