Psalm 48:2-3 KJV,ASV

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 48:1-14

Psalms 48:1-14THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1-11, with which this psalm has many points of contact. In both we have the same triumph, the same proud affection for the holy city and sanctuary, the same confidence in God’s dwelling there, the same vivid picturing of the mustering of enemies and their rapid dispersion, the same swift movement of style in describing that overthrow, the same thought of the diffusion of God’s praise in the world as its consequence, the same closing... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 48:1-14

Psalms 48:0 The Judgment of the Nations and the Millennium 1. Jerusalem the city of the King (Psalms 48:1-3 ) 2. The confederated nations scattered (Psalms 48:4-7 ) 3. The millennium (Psalms 48:8-14 ) Jerusalem is now seen as the city of the great King. His glorious throne will there be established, and Mount Zion becomes the joy of the whole earth. Psalms 48:4-7 show what preceded the coming of the King. The nations had come against Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:1-21 ), a mighty confederacy... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 48:2

48:2 Beautiful for situation, the {c} joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.(c) Because the word of salvation came there to all who would believe. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 48:3

48:3 God is known in her palaces for a {d} refuge.(d) Unless God is the defence of it, neither situation nor munition can prevail. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 48:1-14

Psalms 38:0 An appeal to God from chastisement because of iniquity (Psalms 38:1-4 ). The mental anguish is described in figures of physical disease, and yet it is not impossible that such disease may have been part of the chastisement (Psalms 38:5-8 ). The desertion of friends and the opposition of enemies also entered into it (Psalms 38:10-17 ). There are verses susceptible of an application to Christ, but others would prevent its application as a whole to him. Psalms 40:0 Messianic (compare... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 48:2-3

Beautiful and distinguished indeed is the church, the gospel church of Jesus. Is this Zion, said some of old, whom no man looketh after? Yes! But where are those cities the world hath been running after? Where is Babylon? Where is Nineveh? Where is Tyre? What is become of all the great monarchies of the earth: the Egyptian, the Assyrian, the Grecian, Persian, Roman? Alas! not a vestige remains. But glorious things are spoken of thee, thou city of God. Psalms 87:3 . Reader! do not, I pray you,... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 48:3

Earth-born. Hebrew, "sons of Adam," a title belonging to the meanest. Progenies terr'e6. Perseus vi. 56. (Calmet) --- So Callimachus styles the giants, "mud-born." (Haydock)--- Yet Houbigant explains it of the rich, (Berthier) who have lands, and leave their names to them, ver. 12. (Haydock) --- Of men. Hebrew ish, noblemen. (Menochius) --- Ye just and (St. Augustine) and polite. (St. Athanasius) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 48:1-7

1-7 Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in which he is all. There God is known. The clearer discoveries are made to us of the Lord and his greatness, the more it is expected that we should abound in his praises. The earth is, by sin, covered with deformity, therefore justly might that spot of ground, which was beautified with holiness, be... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 48:1-14

Zion as a Type of the Christian Church. A song and psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number to set forth the privileges and blessings of God's dominion in His Church. v. 1. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in setting forth His fame in psalms of thanksgiving, in the city of our God, where the Tabernacle and afterward the Temple stood, in the mountain of His holiness, where He dwells in the glory of His holiness. v. 2. Beautiful for situation, elevated for the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 48:1-14

Psalms 48:0A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praisedIn 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 knownIn 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... read more