Psalms 48:4 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Psalms 48:4

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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For—The reason is given. Though the kings (perhaps of Moab and Ammon, compare Psalms 83:3-5) combined, a conviction of God's presence with His people, evinced by the unusual courage with which the prophets (compare II Chronicles 20:12-20) had inspired them, seized on their minds, and smitten with sudden and intense alarm, they fled astonished.

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