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Verse Psalms 48:14. _FOR THIS GOD_] Who did all these wonderful
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Is _OUR GOD_] He is our portion, and he has taken us for his people.
_HE WILL BE OUR GUIDE_] Through all the snares and diff...
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FOR THIS GOD IS OUR GOD FOREVER AND EVER - The God who has thus made
his abode in the city, and who has manifested himself as its
prorector. It is our comfort to reflect that such a God is “our”
God;...
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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 (Psalms 48:8)
Jer...
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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 Zi...
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THIS GOD: or, such. God.
EVEN UNTO DEATH. for evermore, according to some codices, five early
printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate The Massorites
divided the one word (_'almuth_) into...
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The lessons of deliverance....
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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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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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_FOR THIS GOD IS OUR GOD FOR EVER AND EVER: HE WILL BE OUR GUIDE EVEN
UNTO DEATH._
For this God - who hath performed such a deliverance for us.
HE WILL BE OUR GUIDE EVEN UNTO DEATH - literally, 'upo...
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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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UNTO DEATH. — The words (‘_al mûth_) are proved by the ancient
versions and various readings to be really a musical direction, either
placed at the end instead of the beginning, as in Habakkuk 3:19, o...
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_[Psalms 48:15]_ כִּ֤י זֶ֨ה ׀ אֱלֹהִ֣ים
אֱ֭לֹהֵינוּ עֹולָ֣ם וָ עֶ֑ד ה֖וּא
יְנַהֲגֵ֣נוּ עַל ־מֽוּת׃...
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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 l...
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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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_They shall delight in their mouth. Notwithstanding the wretched way
in which they walk, they shall applaud themselves with their mouths,
and glory in their doings, (Challoner) though it be to their s...
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What a beautiful conclusion to such a triumphant Psalm. Jesus, that is
our God and Saviour now, that hath been our fathers Saviour; is ours,
and will be to the generation following, and to every gener...
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14._For this God is our God for ever and ever _From these words it
appears still more clearly, that when the prophet spake of the palaces
of Jerusalem, it was not that the godly should keep their eyes...
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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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FOR THIS GOD [IS] OUR GOD FOR EVER AND EVER,.... Who is spoken of
throughout the whole psalm as greatly to be praised, as well as is
known in Zion, as the stability, security, and protection of her. T...
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_For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide
[even] unto death._
Ver. 14. _For this God is our God_] To draw them up to this
consideration it was, that the prophet so calls upon...
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_This God_, &c. Who hath done this great work for us; _is our God_ Who
alone can protect us, and will be our defender, if we depend upon him,
_for ever and ever. He will be our guide even unto death_...
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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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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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THIS GOD; who hath done this great work. EVEN UNTO DEATH, i.e. whilst
we have a being. Birth and life, and the several ages of life and
death, are oft ascribed to churches and commonwealths, both in
S...
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Psalms 48:14 God H430 God H430 forever H5769 ever H5703 guide H5090
(H8762) death H4192
this God - Psalms 16:2, Psalms 31:14, Psalms 73:24, Psalms 73:26;
Lamentations 3:21
guide -...
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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
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...
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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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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 o...
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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...
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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_ th...
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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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Isaiah 58:11; John 16:13; Lamentations 3:21; Proverbs 8:20; Psalms
16:2; Psalms 23:3; Psalms 23:4; Psalms 25:9; Psalms 31:14; Psalms
73:24;...