Psalms 48:11

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 in respect of the mother city, to which they are subjects: see Joshua 15:45, Joshua 17:16 Psalms 45:12, Psalms 137:8. He mentions Judah only, and not all Israel; partly because they were more immediately and eminently concerned in Jerusalem's deliverance; and principally because ten of the tribes of Israel were now cut off from Jerusalem, and from the kingdom of David's house, and possibly carried away captive, 2 Kings 18:9. Because of thy judgments upon thine and their enemies; at which they were glad, not simply, but because it was highly conducible to God's honour, and to the preservation and enlargement of God's church in the world.