Psalm 48:1-2

Zion, the City of Our God

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

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l Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
in m the city of our God!
His n holy mountain, 2 o beautiful in elevation,
is p the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
q the city of the great King.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 42:1
    Book Two As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
    Psalms 46:1
    God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 96:4
    For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
    Psalms 145:3
    Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 46:4
    There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 2:6
    "As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill."
    Psalms 87:1
    On the holy mount stands the city he founded.
    Zechariah 8:3
    Thus says the Lord : I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.
    Isaiah 2:3
    And many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
    Micah 4:1
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 50:2
    Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
  6. Cross References
    Lamentations 2:15
    All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?
    Ezekiel 20:6
    On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 5:35
    Or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
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