Psalms 48 ~ Listen and Read Along

Dramatized KJV
 JV McGee
This Psalm celebrates the final and complete victory of the Messiah. Psalm 46 expresses trust in God through the experience of God's grace in the present. Psalm 47 celebrates God's intervention on behalf of His people, with Christ being King over all the earth and Israel exalted above the nations. The call is to praise God together. Psalm 48 presents the King in Zion, the center of government from which He rules over all the earth. This psalm also talks about the importance of the city and the temple of God to the heart of God.

Psalm 48:9-11 are a thanksgiving to the covenant faithfulness of God, revealed in righteousness (v. 10) and in judgment (v. 11). While before, in verses 1-8, God is spoken of, God is now spoken to. After describing God's protection, the Korahites talk about what they do and where they do it (v. 9). They address God in admiration, Whom they address with "O God", in which we note a heartfelt expression of fellowship with Him.

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Zion, the City of Our God    

Psalms 48:1 A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Psalms 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Psalms 48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
Psalms 48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
Psalms 48:5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Psalms 48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Psalms 48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psalms 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
Psalms 48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Psalms 48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalms 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
Psalms 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
Psalms 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Psalms 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
  
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