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Psalm 48
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.
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8As we have
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Footnotes
Broken Bondage
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1Great is the LORD,and greatly to be praisedin the city of our God,His holy mountain. 2Beautiful in loftiness,the joy of all the earth,like the peaks of Zaphonfootnote ais Mount Zion,the city of the great King. 3God is in her citadels;He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
4For behold, the kings assembled;they all advanced together. 5They saw and were astounded;they fled in terror. 6Trembling seized them there,anguish like a woman in labor. 7With a wind from the eastYou wrecked the ships of Tarshish.footnote b
8As we have heard, so we have seenin the city of the LORD of Hosts,in the city of our God:God will establish her forever.Selah 9Within Your temple, O God,we contemplate Your loving devotion. 10Your name, O God, like Your praise,reaches to the ends of the earth;Your right hand is full of righteousness. 11Mount Zion is glad,the daughtersfootnote cof Judah rejoice,on account of Your judgments.
12March around Zion, encircle her,count her towers, 13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels,that you may tell the next generation. 14For this God is our God forever and ever;He will be our guide even till death.footnote d
Footnotes
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