Psalm 47:9 {46:10}
Good News Translation
The rulers of the nations assemble with the people of the God of Abraham. More powerful than all armies is he; he rules supreme.

New Revised Standard Version
The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted.

Contemporary English Version
Their leaders come together and are now the people of Abraham's God. All rulers on earth surrender their weapons, and God is greatly praised!

New American Bible
The princes of the peoples assemble with the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God, highly exalted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

Psalm 72:7-9 In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away. . . .

Psalm 110:2,3 The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies. . . .

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Isaiah 11:10 In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Isaiah 60:4,5 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall rise up at thy side. . . .

Isaiah 66:19,20 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles: . . .

Romans 11:25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

the God

Genesis 17:7,8 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . .

Exodus 3:6,15 And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God. . . .

Isaiah 41:8-10 But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend: . . .

Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.

Romans 4:11,12 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice: . . .

Galatians 3:29 And if you be Christ's, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

shields

Psalm 89:18 For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.

he is

Psalm 46:10 Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth.

Context
Clap Your Hands, All You Peoples
8God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne. 9The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.
Cross References
Romans 4:11
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

Romans 4:12
And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

Psalm 72:11
And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him.

Psalm 89:18
For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.

Psalm 97:9
For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.

Psalm 102:22
When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.

Isaiah 49:7
Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

Isaiah 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

Psalm 47:8
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