Psalms 48:4-14

4 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together.

5 They saw it, then were they amazed. They were dismayed, They hurried away.

6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

7 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

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 forever. Selah.

9 We have thought about your lovingkindness, God, In the midst of your temple.

10 As is your name, God, So is your praise to the ends of the eretz. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

11 Let Mount Tziyon be glad! Let the daughters of Yehudah rejoice, Because of your judgments.

12 Walk about Tziyon, and go around her. Number the towers of it;

13 Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, That you may tell it to the next generation.

14 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Psalms 48:4-14 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.