Psalms · 14 verses
Psalms 48
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The kings arrive in a body, take one look, and run; then, after promising that the city will stand forever, the psalm sends its hearers out to count the towers.
The city before which kings fleevv. 1–8
The song opens with the LORD praised in His holy mountain, where Mount Zion rises beautifully as the joy of all the earth and the city of the great King. God is in her citadels, and the kings assemble and advance together—only to see, become astounded, and flee in terror. What they saw is left wonderfully unreported; the psalm is content with the fleeing. Then, from nowhere in particular, an east wind wrecks the ships of Tarshish, before the city is declared established forever.
A most practical eternityvv. 9–14
Inside the temple, the singers contemplate God's loving devotion, while His name and praise reach the ends of the earth. Mount Zion is glad and Judah's daughters rejoice over His judgments. Then the song becomes an inspection order: march around the city, encircle it, count its towers, consider its ramparts, and tour its citadels—not merely for admiration, but so the next generation may be told. The final word joins the everlasting God to a guide who continues till death.
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Ps 48:1A 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.
Ps 48:2Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
Ps 48:3God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
Ps 48:4For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.
Ps 48:5They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.
Ps 48:6Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
Ps 48:7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
Ps 48:8As 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
Ps 48:9Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
Ps 48:10Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Ps 48:11Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
Ps 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
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Where this is echoed
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- 14Isaiah 58:11The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
- 14Psalms 23:3–4He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
- 14Psalms 73:24You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.
- 14Psalms 25:9He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.
- 14John 16:13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
- 14Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- 1Micah 4:1In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.
- 1Zechariah 8:3This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
- 2Psalms 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
- 14Psalms 31:14But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
- 14Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
- 1Psalms 96:4For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.
- 1Isaiah 2:2–3In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
- 9Psalms 26:3For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
- 1Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
- 2Matthew 5:35or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
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