Psalms 48

A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.

1 [a]Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.
2 Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon[b] is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.
3 God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress.
4 When the kings joined forces, when they advanced together,
5 they saw her and were astounded; they fled in terror.
6 Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.
7 You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind.
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.[c]
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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Cross References 27

  • 1. Psalms 86:10; Psalms 96:4; Psalms 99:2; Psalms 135:5; Psalms 147:5; Jeremiah 10:6
  • 2. S 2 Samuel 22:4; S 1 Chronicles 16:25; Psalms 18:3
  • 3. S Psalms 46:4
  • 4. S Deuteronomy 33:19; Psalms 2:6; Psalms 87:1; Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 32:16; Jeremiah 31:23; Daniel 9:16; Isaiah 2:2-3; Micah 4:1; Zechariah 8:3
  • 5. Psalms 50:2; Lamentations 2:15; Ezekiel 16:14
  • 6. S Joshua 13:27
  • 7. S Psalms 2:6
  • 8. Matthew 5:35
  • 9. ver 13; Psalms 122:7
  • 10. Psalms 18:2; Psalms 46:7
  • 11. 2 Samuel 10:1-19
  • 12. Exodus 15:16; Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 46:5; Daniel 5:9
  • 13. S Job 4:14
  • 14. S Genesis 3:16
  • 15. S Genesis 10:4; S 1 Kings 10:22; 1 Kings 22:48
  • 16. S Genesis 41:6; Jeremiah 18:17; Ezekiel 27:26
  • 17. Jeremiah 23:6; Zechariah 8:13; Zechariah 14:11; Psalms 87:5
  • 18. S Psalms 39:3
  • 19. Psalms 6:4; Psalms 26:3
  • 20. S Exodus 6:3; Deuteronomy 28:58; S Joshua 7:9
  • 21. 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
  • 22. Psalms 97:8
  • 23. S Nehemiah 3:1
  • 24. 2 Samuel 20:15; Isaiah 26:1; Lamentations 2:8; Habakkuk 2:1
  • 25. S ver 3; Psalms 122:7
  • 26. Psalms 71:18; Psalms 78:6; Psalms 109:13
  • 27. Psalms 25:5; Psalms 73:24; Proverbs 6:22; Isaiah 49:10; Isaiah 57:18; Isaiah 58:11; Psalms 23:4

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. In Hebrew texts 48:1-14 is numbered 48:2-15.
  • [b]. "Zaphon" was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.
  • [c]. The Hebrew has "Selah" (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

Psalms 48 Commentaries

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