The Power of Clapping and Shouting
Selected Scriptures
1st Clapping
Psalm 47:1
Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
2 Kings 11:12
Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!"
Psalm 98:8
Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together.
Isaiah 55:12
"For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Psalm 47:1 (ESV)
Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
Psalm 47:1 (NKJV)
Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Psalm 47:1 (NIV)
Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.
2nd Shouting
Psalm 65:13
The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain (abundant setting); they shout for joy and sing.
Psalm 66:1
Shout with joy to God, all the earth!
Psalm 81:1
Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
Psalm 95:1
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Psalm 98:4-6
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn — shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
Psalm 100:1
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
Joshua 6:15-16, 20
On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city! When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city.