Psalms 48:1

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

In Context

2Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:1After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.

Psalms 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”

Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Psalms 65:1Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion; to You our vows will be fulfilled.

Psalms 86:10For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 48:1

This psalm, as the two former, is a triumphant song; some think it was penned on occasion of Jehoshaphat's victory ( 2 Chron. xx. ), others of Sennacherib's defeat, when his army laid siege to Jerusalem in Hezekiah's time; but, for aught I know, it might be penned by David upon occasion of some eminent victory obtained in his time; yet not so calculated for that but that it might serve any other similar occasion in aftertimes, and be applicable also to the glories of the gospel church, of which Jerusalem was a… Read the whole commentary →

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