Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 48:11
Let (k) mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
(k) Let Jerusalem and the cities of Judea rejoice, for your just judgments against your enemies.
Let (k) mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
(k) Let Jerusalem and the cities of Judea rejoice, for your just judgments against your enemies.
Verse Psalms 48:11. _LET MOUNT ZION REJOICE_] The temple is restored in majesty, which was threatened with total destruction; it is again repaired. _LET THE DAUGHTERS OF JUDAH BE GLAD_] That thou has...
LET MOUNT ZION REJOICE - Let Jerusalem, the holy city, rejoice or be glad. Mount Zion is evidently used here to designate the city; and the idea is, that the city of God - the holy city - had occasion...
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...
DAUGHTERS. cities. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for cities (compare Numbers 21:25.Joshua 17:11; Joshua 17:16). These cities of Judah had cause for rejoicing, for they were now free...
The lessons of deliverance....
The R.V. assimilates the rendering to that of Psalms 97:8, where the same words recur: Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice. The _daughters of Judah_are not the maidens of Jud...
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...
_LET MOUNT ZION REJOICE, LET THE DAUGHTERS OF JUDAH BE GLAD, BECAUSE OF THY JUDGMENTS._ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments - on our foes. "The daught...
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...
DAUGHTERS OF JUDAH. — Not the maidens of Jerusalem, but the towns and villages of Judah. JUDGMENTS. — Perhaps here, as in Psalms 119:132, with prominent idea of God’s _customary_ dealings with His pe...
_[Psalms 48:12]_ יִשְׂמַ֤ח ׀ הַר ־צִיֹּ֗ון תָּ֭גֵלְנָה בְּנֹ֣ות...
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...
_He shall not see destruction, &c., or shall he not see destruction? As much as to say, however thoughtless may be of his death, he must not expect to escape: when even the wise and the good are not e...
Here the church is called upon, and well she may, to rejoice in her unspeakable felicity....
11_Mount Zion shall rejoice _The Psalmist now concludes his exhortation to rejoicing, telling us that Jerusalem and the other cities of Judea shall have cause to commend the righteousness of God, (202...
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...
LET MOUNT ZION REJOICE,.... The church in general; see Psalms 48:1; LET THE DAUGHTERS OF JUDAH BE GLAD; particular churches; and so the Targum renders it, "the congregations of the house of Judah";...
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. Ver. 11. _Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters, &c._] Let the Church catholic, and each particular member th...
_Let mount Zion rejoice_ That is, Jerusalem; _let the daughters of Judah_ The other lesser cities, towns, and villages; _be glad, because of thy judgments_ Upon thy and their enemies. Let the mother c...
Let Mount Zion, the spiritual Israel, REJOICE, LET THE DAUGHTERS OF JUDAH, the congregation of believers, the children of the spiritual Judah, BE GLAD BECAUSE OF THY JUDGMENTS, the decisions and acts...
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....
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...
MOUNT ZION; synecdochically put for Jerusalem. _The daughters of Judah_, i.e. the other and lesser cities and towns or villages (i.e. all the people) of Judah; for such are commonly called daughters i...
Psalms 48:11 Mount H2022 Zion H6726 rejoice H8055 (H8799) daughters H1323 Judah H3063 glad H1523 (H8799) judgments
HAVING MEDITATED ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED, GOD'S PEOPLE NOW DECLARE THEIR CONFIDENCE IN GOD (PSALMS 48:9). Psalms 48:9 ‘We have thought on your covenant love, O God, In the midst of your temple. As is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a hymn celebrating Z
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:9 The people assembled for worship reflect on how God has displayed his STEADFAST LOVE in delivering and preserving them as his people. He called them so that his PRAISE might...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:26; 2 Chronicles 20:27; Isaiah 37:22; Judges 5:31;...
Judgments — Upon thine and their enemies....