Psalms 48:5
What meaning of the psalms 48:5 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 48:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away."
What does Psalms 48:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away."
THEY SAW IT - That is, they looked on it; they contemplated it; they were struck with its beauty and strength, and fled. AND SO THEY MARVELED - It surpassed their expectations of its strength, and 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 (Psalms 48:8) Jer...
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 Zi...
Jehovah's revelation of Himself as Zion's protector in the recent discomfiture of her enemies....
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...
_THEY SAW IT, AND SO THEY MARVELLED; THEY WERE TROUBLED, AND HASTED AWAY._ They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away. No sooner had they come within sight of the city tha...
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...
THEY SAW. — A verse like Psalms 46:6, vivid from the omission of the conjunctions, wrongly supplied by the Authorised Version. It has reminded commentators of Caesar’s _Veni, vidi, vici._ THEY _looke...
_[Psalms 48:6]_ הֵ֣מָּה רָ֭אוּ כֵּ֣ן תָּמָ֑הוּ נִבְהֲל֥וּ נֶחְפָּֽזוּ׃...
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 l...
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...
They saw [(f) it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away. (f) The enemies were afraid at the sight of the city....
_Proposition. Hebrew, "riddle." (Berthier) --- The ancients delighted in parables, which required attention to discern the meaning, and thus people had the pleasures of ingenuity. Music often accompan...
All the powers of the world were confederate against Israel, when first God made her a church. And all the powers of the world were confederate when first the gospel was made known. Hell hath been up...
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...
THEY SAW [IT],.... Either the city or the power of God, as Aben Ezra; or, as Jarchi, God himself going forth to fight against the nations. This refers to the power Christ will take to himself, and sho...
They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away. Ver. 5. _They saw it, and so they marvelled_] None of them could say, as Caesar, _Veni, vidi, vici,_ I came, I saw, I conq...
_For lo, the kings were assembled_ The neighbouring princes confederate against Jerusalem: see the contents. _They passed by_ In their march toward Jerusalem. They advanced, and marched on, not doubti...
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....
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...
THEY SAW IT; they did only look upon it, but _not come into it, nor shoot an arrow there, nor cast a bank against it_, as is said upon this or the like occasion, 2 KINGS 19:32. SO THEY MARVELLED, not...
Psalms 48:5 saw H7200 (H8804) marveled H8539 (H8804) troubled H926 (H8738) away H2648 (H8738) were - Exodus 14:25; 2 Kings 7:6-7, 2 Kings 19:35-37...
THE NATIONS QUAIL BEFORE THE POWER OF GOD IN HIS HOLY HILL (PSALMS 48:4). The glory of the dwellingplace of the Great God is such that the nations quail before Him. Though they may assemble themselve...
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, w...
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...
_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 o...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a hymn celebrating Zion as God’s special city, which he defends for the sake of the world. It remembers some great event, in which Gen...
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_ th...
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 Kings 19:35; 2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 7:7; Exodus 14:25...
Saw it — They did only look upon it, but not come into it, nor shoot an arrow there — nor cast a bank against it, 2 Kings 19:32. Marvelled — At the wonderful works wrought by God....