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Psalms 48:1

Hear these words, all you⌃ nations, listen, all you⌃ that dwell upon the earth: 1

LXX2012 (US English)

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

2both the + 48:2 Gr. earth-born. sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:1And after this came the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Minaeans, against Josaphat to battle.

Psalms 2:6But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain, 1

Psalms 42:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1

Psalms 46:4He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause. 1

Psalms 65:1Shout to God, all the earth. 1

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

King James VersionBíblia Portuguesa MundialLuther Bibel (Deutsch)Bible Louis Segond (Français)Библия (Русский)新标点和合本성경 (한국어)الكتاب المقدس باللغة العربية، فان دايكBibbia Diodati (Italiano)Kinh Thánh (Tiếng Việt)Biblia Cornilescu (Română)Polish Biblia Gdanska (1881)Statenvertaling (Nederlands)

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