Psalms 48:8
As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, God will establish it forever. Selah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7With the east wind thou break the ships of Tarshish.
9We have thought on thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Cross References
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 48:1Great is LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
Psalms 87:5Yea, of Zion it shall be said, this and that man was born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.
Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.
Micah 4:1But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and peoples shall flow to it.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 48:2-8
The Beauty and Strength of Zion. 1 Great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. 5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 7… Read the whole commentary →