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CHAP. XLVIII.
The Ornaments and priuiledges of the Church.
3 God is knowen in her palaces for a refuge.
4 For loe, the kings were assembled: they passed by together.
5 They sawe it, and so they marueiled, they were troubled and hasted away.
6 Feare tooke holde vpon them there, and paine, as of a woman in trauaile.
7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind.
9 Wee haue thought of thy louing kindnesse, O God, in the middest of thy Temple.
11 Let mount Sion reioyce, let the daughters of Iudah be glad, because of thy iudgements.
12 Walke about Sion, and goe round about her: tell the towres thereof.
13 Marke yee well her bulwarkes, consider her palaces; that yee may tell it to the generation following.13
14 For this God is our God for euer, and euer; he will be our guide euen vnto death.
View Wesley's Notes for Psalms Chapter 48
48:1 The city - In Jerusalem. Mountain - In his holy mountain.
48:2 The joy - This is spoken prophetically, because the joyful doctrine of the gospel was to go from thence to all nations. The city - Of God, who justly calls himself a great king.
48:3 Known - By long experience. Palaces - Possibly he may point at the king's palace and the temple, which was the palace of the king of heaven; which two palaces God did in a singular manner protect, and by protecting them, protected the whole city and people.
48:4 The kings - Either those kings confederate against Jehoshaphat, #2Chron 20:1|, or the Assyrian princes; whom they vain - gloriously called kings, #Isa 10:8|. Passed - In their march towards Jerusalem.
48:5 Saw it - They did only look upon it, but not come into it, nor shoot an arrow there - nor cast a bank against it, #2Kings 19:32|. Marvelled - At the wonderful works wrought by God.
48:6 Fear - At the tidings of Tirhakah's coming against them, #2Kings 19:9|, and at that terrible slaughter of their army, ver. 35.
48:7 Breakest - Thou didst no less violently and suddenly destroy these raging enemies of Jerusalem, than sometimes thou destroyest the ships at sea with a fierce and vehement wind, such as the eastern winds were in those parts.
48:8 Heard - The predictions of the prophets have been verified by the events. Establish - God will defend her in all succeeding ages. And so God would have done, if Jerusalem had not forsaken him, and forfeited his protection.
48:9 Thought - It hath been the matter of our serious and deep meditation, when we have been worshipping in thy temple.
48:10 So - Thou art acknowledged to be such an one as thou hast affirmed thyself to be in thy Word, God Almighty, or All - sufficient, the Lord of hosts, and a strong tower to all that trust in thee. Righteousness - Of righteous actions; by which thou discoverest thy holiness.
48:11 Judgments - Upon thine and their enemies.
48:12 Tell - He bids them mark well her towers, bulwarks, and palaces, with thankfulness to God, when they should find upon enquiry, that not one of them were demolished.
48:13 Tell it - That they may continue their praises to God for this mercy, by which they hold and enjoy all their blessings.
Psalms Chapter 48 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
13 Heb. set your heart to her bulwarkes. , Or, raise vp.
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
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