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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,...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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BULWARKS. outer walls or ramparts.
CONSIDER. single out. Occurs only here....
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The lessons of deliverance....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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;...
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48:13 well (k-3) Lit. 'Set your heart on.'...
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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...
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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...
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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.
_...
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_[Psalms 48:14]_ שִׁ֤יתוּ לִבְּכֶ֨ם ׀ לְֽ
חֵילָ֗ה פַּסְּג֥וּ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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MARK YE WELL HER BULWARKS:
_ Heb._ Set your heart to her bulwarks
CONSIDER:
Or, raise up...
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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...
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Psalms 48:13 Mark H7896 (H8798) well H3820 bulwarks H2430 Consider
H6448 (H8761) palaces H759 tell H5608 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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_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...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a
hymn celebrating Z
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 15:14; Amos 9:11; Deuteronomy 11:19; Isaiah 58:12; Joel 1:3;...
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Tell it — That they may continue their praises to God for this
mercy, by which they hold and enjoy all their blessings....