5 God is gone up with a shout, Jehovah with trumpet clang. 6 Sing with the harp to God, sing with the harp: Sing with the harp to our King, sing with the harp. 7 For King of all the earth is God: Sing with the harp a skilful song. 8 God has become King over the nations: He has taken His seat on His holy throne. 9 The princes of the peoples gather themselves together [As] a people of the God of Abraham: For to God belong the shields of the earth; Greatly has He exalted Himself. The closing thought of Psalm xlvi. is nobly expanded in this jubilant summons to all nations to praise Jehovah as their King. Both psalms have a similar, and probably the same, historical basis: a Divine act so recent that the tumult of triumph has not yet subsided, and the waves of joy still run high. Only in Psalm xlvi. the effect of that God-wrought deliverance is principally regarded as the security and peace of Israel, and in this psalm as the drawing of the nations to obey Israel's King, and so to join the chorus of Israel's praise. While the psalm has many resemblances to the Songs of the King (Psalm xciii. _seqq._), it is clearly in its right place here, as forming with the preceding and succeeding psalms a trilogy, occasioned by one great manifestation of God's care for the nation. No event is more appropriate than the usually accepted destruction of Sennacherib's army. The psalm has little of complexity in structure or thought. It is a gush of pure rapture. It rises to prophetic foresight, and, by reason of a comparatively small historical occasion, has a vision of the world-wide expansion of the kingdom of God. It falls into two strophes of four verses each, with one longer verse appended to the latter.