Psalms 48:9-14

9 God, we come into your Temple to think about your love.

10 God, your name is known everywhere; all over the earth people praise you. Your right hand is full of goodness.

11 Mount Zion is happy and all the towns of Judah rejoice, because your decisions are fair.

12 Walk around Jerusalem and count its towers.

13 Notice how strong they are. Look at the palaces. Then you can tell your children about them.

14 This God is our God forever and ever. He will guide us from now on.

Psalms 48:9-14 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.