Psalms 48:8
Just as we have heard, So, have we seen, In the city of Yahweh of hosts, In the city of our God, God himself, will establish her, unto times age-abiding. [Selah.]
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7With an east wind, wilt thou shatter the ships of Tarshish.
9We have thought, O God, upon thy lovingkindness, In the midst of thy temple:
Cross References
Psalms 44:1O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us,—The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:
Psalms 48:1Great is Yahweh, and worthy to be mightily praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.
Psalms 87:5But, of Zion, it shall be said—This man and that were born in her, And the Highest himself shall establish her.
Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he, can praise thee, As I do this day,—A father, to his children, can make known thy faithfulness.
Micah 4:1But it shall come to pass, in the afterpart of the days, that the mountain of the house of Yahweh shall be, set up, as the head of the mountains, and, exalted, shall it be, above the hills,—and peoples, shall stream thereunto;
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 →