Salmos 48:1

La Biblia de las Americas

Cántico. Salmo de los hijos de Coré.

Grande es el Señor , y muy digno de ser alabado en la ciudad de nuestro Dios, su santo monte.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Canci�n: Salmo de los hijos de Cor�. GRANDE es Jehov� y digno de ser en gran manera alabado, En la ciudad de nuestro Dios, en el monte de su santuario.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
�Canci�n: Salmo de los hijos de Cor� Grande es Jehov� y digno de ser en gran manera alabado, en la ciudad de nuestro Dios, en su monte santo.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Canci�n de Salmo a los hijos de Cor�. Grande es el SE�OR y digno de ser en gran manera alabado en la ciudad de nuestro Dios, en el monte de su santidad.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for: or, of, Psalms 46:1, *title

Great: Psalms 86:10, Psalms 99:3, Psalms 99:4, Psalms 145:3, Psalms 147:5

greatly: Psalms 89:1-7, Nehemiah 9:5, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 15:4, Revelation 19:5

city: Psalms 46:4, Psalms 65:1, Psalms 78:68, Psalms 87:3, Hebrews 12:22, Revelation 21:2, Revelation 21:10-22

mountain: Psalms 47:8, Psalms 99:9, Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 27:13, Jeremiah 31:23, Obadiah 1:17, Micah 4:1, Zechariah 8:3, Matthew 24:15

Reciprocal: Numbers 26:11 - General 2 Samuel 7:22 - Wherefore 2 Chronicles 6:6 - But I have chosen Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 12:13 - the city Ezra 4:12 - bad city Psalms 2:6 - my Psalms 42:1 - the sons Psalms 48:8 - city of the Lord Psalms 49:1 - for Psalms 74:2 - this mount Psalms 76:1 - In Judah Psalms 84:1 - How Psalms 87:1 - the holy Psalms 99:2 - great Psalms 132:13 - he hath desired Psalms 135:5 - I know Psalms 135:21 - which dwelleth Isaiah 1:21 - the faithful Isaiah 48:2 - they call Jeremiah 10:6 - thou Ezekiel 35:10 - whereas Daniel 2:45 - the great Revelation 20:9 - the camp

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Great [is] the Lord,.... The same that in the foregoing psalm is said to be gone, up to heaven with a shout, to sit on the throne of his holiness, to reign over the Heathen, and to be King over all the earth; who is great, and the Son of the Highest; the great God and our Saviour; great in his person as God-man, God manifest in the flesh, his Father's fellow and equal; and in the perfections of his nature, being of great power, and of great wisdom, and of great faithfulness, and of strict holiness and justice, and of wonderful grace and goodness; great in his works of creation and providence; in his miraculous operations when on earth, and in the work of man's redemption and salvation; great is he in all his offices, a great Prophet risen in Israel, a great High Priest over thee house of God, a Saviour, and a great one, and the great Shepherd of the sheep;

and greatly to be praised in the city of our God; the city of Jerusalem, the city of solemnities, where was the worship of God, and where the tribes went up to worship, and God was present with his people; and where the great Lord of all showed himself to be great; here Christ the great Saviour appeared, even in the temple, when a child, where Simeon and Anna saw him, and spoke great things of him; where he at twelve years of age disputed with the doctors, and showed his great wisdom; here when grown up he wrought many of his great miracles, and taught his doctrines; here he entered in great triumph, attended with the shouts, acclamations, and hosannas of the people; here he ate his last passover with his disciples; and in a garden near it was he taken and brought before the sanhedrim, assembled at the high priest's palace at Jerusalem; and then tried and condemned at the bar of Pilate; when being led a little way out of the city he was crucified on Mount Calvary; and on another mount, the mount of Olives, about a mile from it, he ascended to heaven; and here in this city he poured forth the Spirit in an extraordinary manner on his disciples at the day of Pentecost, as an evidence of his ascension; and from hence his Gospel went forth into all the world; and therefore was greatly to be praised here, as he was by his disciples, church, and people, Acts 2:46. Jerusalem is a figure of the Gospel church, which is often compared to a city, Isaiah 26:1; of which saints are citizens and fellow citizens of each other; this is a city built on Christ the foundation; is full of inhabitants, when together and considered by themselves; is governed by wholesome laws, enacted by Christ its King, who has appointed officers under him to explain and enforce them, and see that they are put in execution; and has many privileges and immunities belonging to it; and this is the city of God, of his building and of his defending, and where he dwells; it is, as in

Psalms 48:2; "the city of the great King", the King Messiah, and where he displays his greatness; here he appears great and glorious, shows his power and his glory; is seen in the galleries and through the lattices of ordinances, in his beauty and splendour; here he grants his gracious presence, and bestows his favours and blessings; and is therefore greatly to be praised here, as he is by all his people on the above accounts, Even

[in] the mountain of his holiness; as Mount Zion is called on account of the temple built upon it, and the worship of God in it; and a fit emblem it was of the church of Christ, which, as that is, is chosen and, loved of God, and is his habitation, is impregnable and immovable, and consists of persons sanctified by God the Father, in the Son, and through the Spirit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great is the Lord - That is, he is high and exalted; he is a Being of great power and glory. He is not weak and feeble, like the idols worshipped by other nations. He is able to defend his people; he has shown his great power in overthrowing the mighty forces that were gathered together against the city where he dwells.

And greatly to be praised - Worthy to be praised. In his own nature, he is worthy of adoration; in interposing to save the city from its foes, he has shown that he is worthy of exalted praise.

In the city of our God - Jerusalem. In the city which he has chosen for his abode, and where his worship is celebrated. See the notes at Psalms 46:4. This praise was especially appropriate there:

(a) because it was a place set apart for his worship;

(b) because he had now interposed to save it from threatened ruin.

In the mountain of his holiness - His holy mountain; either Mount Zion, if the psalm was composed before the building of the temple - or more probably here Mount Moriah, on which the temple was reared. The names Zion, and Mount Zion, however, were sometimes given to the entire city. Compare the notes at Isaiah 2:2-3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM XLVIII

The ornaments and the privileges of the Church, 1-8.

The duty of God's people, 9-14.

NOTES ON PSALM XLVIII

The title: A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. To which the Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, and Arabic add, for the second day of the week; for which I believe it would be difficult to find a meaning. It is evidently of the same complexion with the two preceding, and refers to the Jews returned from captivity; and perhaps was sung at the dedication of the second temple, in order to return thanks to the Lord for the restoration of their political state, and the reestablishment of their worship.

Verse Psalms 48:1. Great is the Lord — This verse should be joined to the last verse of the preceding Psalm, as it is a continuation of the same subject; and indeed in some of Kennicott's MSS. it is written as a part of the foregoing. That concluded with He is greatly exalted; this begins with Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; i.e., He should be praised according to his greatness; no common praise is suited to the nature and dignity of the Supreme God.

In the city of our God — That is, in the temple; or in Jerusalem, where the temple was situated.

The mountain of his holiness. — Mount Moriah, on which the temple was built. The ancient city of Jerusalem, which David took from the Jebusites, was on the south of Mount Zion, on which the temple was built, though it might be said to be more properly on Mount Moriah, which is one of the hills of which Mount Zion is composed. The temple therefore was to the north of the city, as the psalmist here states, 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." But some think that it is the city that is said to be on the north, and Reland contends that the temple was on the south of the city.