Psalms 48:1

Great is Yahweh, and worthy to be mightily praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 elevation, the joy of all the land, Is Mount Zion, in the recesses of the north,—The city of a great king.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:1And it came to pass, after this, that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon, and, with them, some of the Meunim, came against Jehoshaphat, to battle.

Psalms 2:6Yet, I, have installed my king,—on Zion my holy mountain.

Psalms 42:1As, the hart, cometh panting up to the channels of water, So my soul, panteth for thee, O God.

Psalms 46:4A river! whose channels, shall gladden the city of God, The Most High, hath hallowed his habitation.

Psalms 65:1Thine, are silence [and] praise, O God, in Zion,—And, to thee, shall be paid the vow.

Psalms 86:10For great thou art, and doest wondrous things, Thou, O God, of thyself alone.

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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