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FEAR TOOK HOLD UPON THEM THERE - Trembling seized them; they were
filled with sudden consternation. That is, as soon as they saw the
city, or had a distinct view of it, they became alarmed.
AND PAIN...
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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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Jehovah's revelation of Himself as Zion's protector in the recent
discomfiture of her enemies....
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Trembling took hold of them there:
Pangs, as of a woman in travail.
Cp. Exodus 15:14-15; and for the phrase though in a different
connexion, Isaiah 33:14, "Trembling hath taken hold of the godless....
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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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_FEAR TOOK HOLD UPON THEM THERE, AND PAIN, AS OF A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL._
Pain as of a woman in travail - at once sudden and violent (1
Thessalonians 5:3)....
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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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_[Psalms 48:7]_ רְ֭עָדָה אֲחָזָ֣תַם שָׁ֑ם
חִ֝֗יל כַּ...
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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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The iniquity of my heel. That is, the iniquity of my steps, or ways:
or the iniquity of my pride, with which, as with the heel, I have
spurned and kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel,...
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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...
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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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FEAR TOOK HOLD UPON THEM THERE,.... That is, either when they came up
to the city, and passed by it, and saw what they did; or, as Kimchi
observes, in the place where they thought to have made a great...
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Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
Ver. 6. _Fear took hold upon them there_] By "so" in the former verse,
and "there" in this, the shameful flight of these enemies...
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_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...
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Fear took hold upon them there, trembling and quaking, AND PAIN, AS OF
A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL....
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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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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...
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Psalms 48:6 Fear H7461 hold H270 (H8804) pain H2427 pangs H3205
(H8802)
Fear - Exodus 1
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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 themselves...
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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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_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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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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Daniel 5:6; Exodus 15:15; Exodus 15:16; Hosea 13:13; Isaiah 13:6;...
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Fear — At the tidings of Tirhakah's coming against them, 2 Kings
19:9, and at that terrible slaughter of their army, 2 Kings 19:35....