Psalmen 47:5

5 Hij verkiest voor ons onze erfenis, de heerlijkheid van Jakob, dien Hij heeft liefgehad. Sela.

Psalmen 47:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 47:5

God is gone up with a shout
That is, the Son of God, who is truly and properly God, equal to the Father, having the same perfections; God manifest in the flesh, the Word that was made flesh, and dwelt among men on earth; who in the next clause is called "Lord" or "Jehovah", being the everlasting "I AM", which is, and was, and is to come; he having done his work on earth he came about, went up from earth to heaven in human nature, really, locally, and visibly, in the sight of his apostles, attended by angels, and with their shouts and acclamations, which are here meant;

the Lord with the sound of the trumpet;
which circumstance, though not related in the account of Christ's ascension in the New Testament, yet inasmuch as the angels say he shall descend in like manner as he ascended, and that it is certain he will descend with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God; so that if his ascent was as his descent will be, it must be then with a shout, and the sound of a trumpet, ( Acts 1:10 ) ( 1 Thessalonians 4:16 ) . This text is applied to the Messiah by the ancient Jewish writers F4.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 Bemidbar Rabba, s. 15. fol. 218. 1.

Psalmen 47:5 In-Context

3 Want de HEERE, de Allerhoogste, is vreselijk, een groot Koning over de ganse aarde.
4 Hij brengt de volken onder ons, en de natien onder onze voeten.
5 Hij verkiest voor ons onze erfenis, de heerlijkheid van Jakob, dien Hij heeft liefgehad. Sela.
6 God vaart op met gejuich, de HEERE met geklank der bazuin.
7 Psalmzingt Gode, psalmzingt! Psalmzingt onzen Koning, psalmzingt!
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.