O Clap Your Hands

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SSAATTBB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Occasion:
Proper of Time → Easter Season → The Ascension of the Lord → Cycle A
Proper of Time → Easter Season → The Ascension of the Lord → Cycle B
Proper of Time → Easter Season → The Ascension of the Lord → Cycle C

Publication Information:
Oxford University Press — TCM 40 (revised) (1966)
ISBN 978-0-19-380435-7

Text Information:
Reference: Psalm 47:2–9

Lyrics:

O clap your hands together, all ye people;
O sing unto God with the voice of melody.
For the Lord is high and to be feared;
He is a great King of all the earth.
He shall subdue the people under us,
and the nations under our feet.
He shall choose out an heritage for us,
e’en the worship of Jacob, whom he loved.
God is gone up with a merry noise,
and the Lord with the sound of the trumpet.
O sing praises unto our God, 
O sing praises unto the Lord our King.
For God is the King of all the earth;
sing ye praises with the understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen;
God sitteth upon his holy seat.
For God, which is highly exalted,
doth defend the earth, as it were with a shield.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 
and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning, is now, 
and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Dec 4, 2021 Last updated: Jan 20, 2022