Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 48:13
Tell it — That they may continue their praises to God for this mercy, by which they hold and enjoy all their blessings.
Tell it — That they may continue their praises to God for this mercy, by which they hold and enjoy all their blessings.
Verse Psalms 48:13. _MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS_] See the _redoubts_ by which she is defended. _CONSIDER HER PALACES_] See her _courts, chambers, altars_, c., c. make an exact register of the whole,...
MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS - Margin, as in Hebrew, “Set your heart to her bulwarks.” That is, Pay close attention to them; make the investigation with care, not as one does whose heart is not in the th...
Psalms 48 The Judgment of the Nations and the Millennium _ 1. Jerusalem the city of the King (Psalms 48:1)_ 2. The confederated nations scattered (Psalms 48:4) 3. The millennium ...
XLVIII. A PSALM WHICH DESCRIBES THE IMPRESSION MADE ON A PILGRIM BY HIS VISIT TO ZION. Psalms 48:1 f. Praise of Zion. SIDES OF THE NORTH is hard to comprehend. It has been explained as contrasting Zio...
BULWARKS. outer walls or ramparts. CONSIDER. single out. Occurs only here....
The lessons of deliverance....
_bulwarks_ The outer wall or rampart. _consider_ Or, as R.V. marg., _traverse_. The word occurs here only, and is of doubtful meaning. But the rendering _consider_suits the context better. In either...
DISCOURSE: 581 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY IN GOD Psalms 48:12. _Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof: mark ye well her bulwarks; consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to th...
LET MOUNT ZION REJOICE, &C.— Dr. Delaney thinks that these verses allude to the great improvements made at Jerusalem, the temple on mount Moriah, Millo, the house of the forest of Lebanon, the palace...
PSALMS 48 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah Worthy to be Praised in his Holy City, whose History rebounds to the Honour of her Shepherd-King, who will yet Lead Israel against Death. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psa...
_MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS, CONSIDER HER PALACES; THAT YE MAY TELL IT TO THE GENERATION FOLLOWING._ Mark ye her bulwarks, consider her palaces. The "bulwarks" indicate the outer circuit of the city;...
48:13 well (k-3) Lit. 'Set your heart on.'...
This Ps. celebrates the safety and glory of Jerusalem, and the praise of her divine King. The deliverance He has wrought is vividly portrayed, and we can hardly fail to recognise that the overthrow of...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
CONSIDER. — The Hebrew word is peculiar to this passage. The root idea seems to be _divide,_ and the natural sense of _divide her palaces_ is, _take them one by one and regard them. _...
_[Psalms 48:14]_ שִׁ֤יתוּ לִבְּכֶ֨ם ׀ לְֽ חֵילָ֗ה פַּסְּג֥וּ...
Psalms 48:1 THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1, 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 CITY OF OUR GOD” Psalms 48:1 This psalm also probably dates from 2 Chronicles 20:20. Tekoa was only three hours' march from Jerusalem and commanded an extensive view, so that Psalms 48:4 were li...
In Psa 46:1-11 the dominant note was of confidence, because of the government of God in the midst of His people. This is a song describing the experience resulting from such government. It is the anth...
Compared. Hebrew, "he is like dumb, or perishable beasts." (Haydock) --- So much is man degraded by his attachment to riches and pleasures. (Theodoret) (Calmet) --- Some explain this of Adam, (St. Chr...
Strangers are challenged to see if they can discover any tokens like ruin, or want, or misery. No! Zion still flourisheth, and must flourish, and be a perfection of beauty. Her ordinances, her courts,...
Psalms 48 completes this series. Jehovah is fully established as Israel's God in Zion, now the praise of the whole earth, the city of the great King, and in whose palaces God is well known as a refuge...
MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS,.... Such as the free favour of God in Christ; which is not only as a shield, but as a bulwark to the church; his everlasting love, electing grace, the covenant of grace, wit...
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following. Ver. 13. _Mark ye well her bulwarks_] Not at all impaired. The Great Turk could never have gotten t...
_Walk about Zion_, &c. He speaks probably to the people of the city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of the glorious work God had wrought for their deliverance. Bishop Patrick thus paraphrases...
Mark ye well her bulwarks, setting their hearts upon the fortifications of the Church, CONSIDER HER PALACES, the many fine congregations in which the Word and the Sacraments are in use in their origin...
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....
MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS: _ Heb._ Set your heart to her bulwarks CONSIDER: Or, raise up...
8-14 We have here the improvement which the people of God are to make of his glorious and gracious appearances for them. Let our faith in the word of God be hereby confirmed. Let our hope of the stab...
CONSIDER; or, _exalt_, or _admire_, _Tell it to the generation following_, that they may be excited to continue their praises to God for this mercy, by which they hold and enjoy all their blessings, a...
Psalms 48:13 Mark H7896 (H8798) well H3820 bulwarks H2430 Consider H6448 (H8761) palaces H759 tell H5608 ...
THE TRIUMPHANT INSPECTION (PSALMS 48:12). This may well originally have indicated a celebratory inspection of the walls carried out in triumphal procession in order to give thanksgiving to God, and i...
Psalms 48:11 I. There are times when heart and brain fail and are weary beneath the weight of the years that have been and the thought of those that are yet to be, times when the whole being sinks bac...
Psalms 48 There is one event, and only one, in Jewish history which corresponds point for point to the details of this Psalm the crushing destruction of the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. We may, wi...
Psalms 48:1. _Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of...
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is not every Psalm that is a song, for some Psalms are full of sorrow and it is not every song that is a Psalm, for, alas! there are many songs that are mere...
CONTENTS: Praise of the beauty and strength of Mount Zion, the city of God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There is one city which is the world's star (Jerusalem), the most precious pearl of...
Title. _A psalm for the sons of Korah._ Asaph being dead, and his sons not named, we infer that the psalm, as many think, was composed on the Assyrian invasion; for then God was truly great in Zion, i...
_Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof._ THE LOVE OF ZION So they revered the city on the hill. Their affections clustered round about its sacred courts. They loved the ver...
_Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised._ A SONG OF DELIVERANCE The psalm has manifestly some historical basis. What is it? The psalm gives these points--a formidable muster before Jerusalem of...
_As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God._ “AS WE HAVE HEARD, SO HAVE WE SEEN” This is seldom true. In many places we see what we have not heard, a...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a hymn celebrating Z
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:12 The worshipers know that God’s people are secure. They are commissioned to TELL THE NEXT GENERATION of their security and their mission....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_. “_A Song and Psalm_.” “It is not easy,” says Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish between the meaning of these words, though _probably_ the...
EXPOSITION HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for either of the two preceding psalms. Israel had now been delive...
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountains of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, th...
Acts 15:14; Amos 9:11; Deuteronomy 11:19; Isaiah 58:12; Joel 1:3;...