Psalms 48:8-14

8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.^[a]

9 Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.

10 Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.

11 Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.

12 Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,

13 consider well her ramparts, view her citadels, that you may tell of them to the next generation.

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

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Psalms 48:8-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 48

\\<>\\. This psalm is entitled a "song psalm", a psalm to be sung vocally; or "a song and psalm" to be sung both vocally and instrumentally; and is one of the spiritual songs the apostle speaks of, Eph 5:19; It was occasioned, as some think, by David's spoiling the Philistines, 2Sa 5:17-21; or, as others, by the deliverance of the people from the Moabites and Ammonites in the times of Jehoshaphat, 2Ch 20:27,28; or, as others, by the deliverance of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from Sennacherib in the times of Hezekiah, 2Ki 19:34,35; though as Kimchi, a celebrated Jewish commentator, owns, it belongs to the times of the Messiah, as the other preceding psalms; and treats of his greatness, and of the praise and glory due to him, and gives large encomiums of his church.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Jeremiah 23:6; Zechariah 8:13; Zechariah 14:11; Psalms 87:5
2. S Psalms 39:3
3. Psalms 6:4; Psalms 26:3
4. S Exodus 6:3; Deuteronomy 28:58; S Joshua 7:9
5. 1 Samuel 2:10; Psalms 22:27; Psalms 65:5; Psalms 98:3; Psalms 100:1; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 24:16; Isaiah 42:10; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 41:10
6. Psalms 97:8
7. S Nehemiah 3:1
8. 2 Samuel 20:15; Isaiah 26:1; Lamentations 2:8; Habakkuk 2:1
9. S ver 3; Psalms 122:7
10. Psalms 71:18; Psalms 78:6; Psalms 109:13
11. Psalms 25:5; Psalms 73:24; Proverbs 6:22; Isaiah 49:10; Isaiah 57:18; Isaiah 58:11; Psalms 23:4

Footnotes 1

[a]. The Hebrew has "Selah" (a word of uncertain meaning) here.