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Psalm 48:2-3
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Psalm 48:2-3
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I
2 Great is the Lord and highly praised
in the city of our God:(A)
His holy mountain,
3 fairest of heights,
the joy of all the earth,(B)
Mount Zion, the heights of Zaphon,[a](C)
the city of the great king.
Footnotes
- 48:3 The heights of Zaphon: the mountain abode of the Canaanite storm-god Baal in comparable texts. To speak of Zion as if it were Zaphon was to claim for Israel’s God what Canaanites claimed for Baal. Though topographically speaking Zion is only a hill, viewed religiously it towers over other mountains as the home of the supreme God (cf. Ps 68:16–17).
Psalm 48:2-3
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Psalm 48:2-3
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Psalm 48:3-4
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Psalm 48:3-4
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3 fairest of heights,
the joy of all the earth,(A)
Mount Zion, the heights of Zaphon,[a](B)
the city of the great king.
II
4 God is in its citadel,
renowned as a stronghold.
Footnotes
- 48:3 The heights of Zaphon: the mountain abode of the Canaanite storm-god Baal in comparable texts. To speak of Zion as if it were Zaphon was to claim for Israel’s God what Canaanites claimed for Baal. Though topographically speaking Zion is only a hill, viewed religiously it towers over other mountains as the home of the supreme God (cf. Ps 68:16–17).
Psalm 48:3-4
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Psalm 48:3-4
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4 When the kings joined forces,
when they advanced together,(C)
Psalm 48:9
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Psalm 48:9
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III
9 [a]What we had heard we have now seen
in the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God,
which God establishes forever.
Selah
Psalm 48:9
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Psalm 48:9
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Psalm 48:10-11
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Psalm 48:10-11
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10 We ponder, O God, your mercy
within your temple
11 Like your name, O God,
so is your praise to the ends of the earth.(A)
Your right hand is fully victorious.
Psalm 48:10-11
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Psalm 48:10-11
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