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Psalms 48
1¶ A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.
2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
5They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away.
6Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
8¶ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
10According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following.
14For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death.
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Birth: Pangs in Giving Psalm 48:6
Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
Bulwark: Figurative Psalm 48:13
consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
Church: Temple Psalm 48:9
Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
Church: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 48:1, 2, 11–13
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain. / Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King. / Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
Church: Zion Psalm 48:11
Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
Cities: Built in Pleasant Situations Psalm 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
Cities: Often Fortified by Art Psalm 48:12, 13
March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers, / consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
Faith: Exemplified Psalm 48:8, 14
As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah / For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
God: Guide Psalm 48:14
For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
God: Holiness of Psalm 48:1, 10
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain. / Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
God: Love of, Exemplified Psalm 48:9, 14
Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion. / For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
God: Preserver Psalm 48:3
God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
God: Righteousness of Psalm 48:10
Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Jerusalem: Beautiful for Situation Psalm 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
Jerusalem: Called: City of God Psalm 48:1
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
Jerusalem: Called: City of the Great King Psalm 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
Jerusalem: Called: Zion Psalm 48:12
March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
Jerusalem: Joy of the Whole Earth Psalm 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
Jerusalem: Protected by Forts and Bulwarks Psalm 48:12, 13
March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers, / consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
Korah: Son of Kohath, and Head of the Family of Sacred Musicians Among the Levites To Psalm 48:1
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of The East Wind Psalm 48:7
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
Palaces: Jerusalem Celebrated For Psalm 48:3, 13
God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress. / consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
Praise: Psalms of, for God's Goodness to Israel Psalm 48:1
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
Praise: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 48:1
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
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Psalms 48:1-7 Verses 1-7
Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in which he is all. There God is known. The clearer discoveries are made to us of the Lord and his greatness, the more it is expected that we should abound in his praises. The earth is, by sin, covered with deformity, therefore justly might that spot of ground, which was beautified with holiness, be called the joy of the whole earth; that which the whole earth has reason to rejoice in, that God would thus in very deed dwell with man upon the earth. The kings of the earth were afraid of it. Nothing in nature can more fitly represent the overthrow of heathenism by the Spirit of the gospel, than the wreck of a fleet in a storm. Both are by the mighty power of the Lord.
Psalms 48:8-14 Verses 8-14
We have here the improvement which the people of God are to make of his glorious and gracious appearances for them. Let our faith in the word of God be hereby confirmed. Let our hope of the stability of the church be encouraged. Let our minds be filled with good thoughts of God. All the streams of mercy that flow down to us, must be traced to the fountain of His loving-kindness. Let us give to God the glory of the great things he has done for us. Let all the members of the church take comfort from what the Lord does for his church. Let us observe the beauty, strength, and safety of the church. Consider its strength; see it founded on Christ the Rock, fortified by the Divine power, guarded by Him who neither slumbers nor sleeps. See what precious ordinances are its palaces, what precious promises are its bulwarks, that you may be encouraged to join yourselves to it: and tell this to others. This God, who has now done such great things for us, is unchangeable in his love to us, and his care for us. If he is our God, he will lead and keep us even to the last. He will so guide us, as to set us above the reach of death, so that it shall not do us any real hurt. He will lead us to a life in which there shall be no more death.