Sunday, November 20, 2011

Great is the LORD

This is another praising psalm but this one revolves around the Temple and the city of the LORD - presumably Jerusalem. Again, certain parts of it seem to indicate it may be the new Jerusalem where the Temple is restored and the kings of the earth come to worship there.
The character of God is repeated here including lovingkindness, righteousness and greatness. References to birth pangs and ships of Tarshish may have been in Isaiah concerning the end times, before the LORD establishes his new Kingdom.

Psalm 48
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

 1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised
         In the city of our God,
         In His holy mountain.
 2 Beautiful in elevation,
         The joy of the whole earth,
         Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
         The city of the great King.
 3 God is in her palaces;
         He is known as her refuge.
        
 4 For behold, the kings assembled,
         They passed by together.
 5 They saw it, and so they marveled;
         They were troubled, they hastened away.
 6 Fear took hold of them there,
         And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
 7 As when You break the ships of Tarshish
         With an east wind.
        
 8 As we have heard,
         So we have seen
         In the city of the LORD of hosts,
         In the city of our God:
         God will establish it forever.  Selah 
        
 9 We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness,
         In the midst of Your temple.
 10 According to Your name, O God,
         So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
         Your right hand is full of righteousness.
 11 Let Mount Zion rejoice,
         Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
         Because of Your judgments.
        
 12 Walk about Zion,
         And go all around her.
         Count her towers;
 13 Mark well her bulwarks;
         Consider her palaces;
         That you may tell it to the generation following.
 14 For this is God,
         Our God forever and ever;
         He will be our guide
         Even to death.

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