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The Glory of God in Zion

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

1 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the acity of our God,
In His holy mountain. 
2 aBeautiful in1 elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King. 
3 God is in her palaces;
He is known as her refuge.
4 For behold, athe kings assembled,
They passed by together. 
5 They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
6 Fear atook hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs, 
7 As when You break the aships of Tarshish
With an east wind. 
8 As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will aestablish it forever. Selah 
9 We have thought, O God, on aYour lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple. 
10 According to aYour name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness. 
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of Your judgments.
12 Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;
13 Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may atell it to the generation following. 
14 For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
aHe will be our guide
1Even to death. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Psalms 48:1

Great is the Lord - This verse should be joined to the last verse of the preceding Psalm, as it is a continuation of the same subject; and indeed in some of Kennicott' s MSS. it is written as a part of the foregoing. That concluded with He is greatly exalted; this begins with Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; i.e., He should be praised according to his greatness; no common praise is suited to the nature and dignity of the Supreme God.

In the city of our God - That is, in the temple; or in Jerusalem, where the temple was situated.

The mountain of his holiness - Mount Moriah, on which the temple was built. The ancient city of Jerusalem, which David took from the Jebusites, was on the south of Mount Zion, on which the temple was built, though it might be said to be more properly on Mount Moriah, which is one of the hills of which Mount Zion is composed. The temple therefore was to the north of the city, as the psalmist here states, Psalms 48:2 : "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." But some think that it is the city that is said to be on the north, and Reland contends that the temple was on the south of the city.


 
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