Parallel Verses English Standard Version As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness. King James Bible According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. American Standard Version As is thy name, O God, So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: Thy right hand is full of righteousness. Douay-Rheims Bible According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice. English Revised Version As is thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. Webster's Bible Translation According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise to the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. Psalm 48:10 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament(Heb.: 48:4) Psalm 48:3, where the pointing is rightly נודע, not נודע, shows that the praise sung by the poet is based upon an event in contemporary history. Elohim has made Himself known by the loftily built parts (Note: lxx: ἐν ταῖς βάρεσιν αὐτῆς, on which Gregory of Nyssa remarks (Opera, Ed. Paris, t. i. p. 333): βάρεις λέγει τάς τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων περιγραφεὶς ἐν τετραγώνῳ τῷ σχήματι.) of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:7) למשׂגּב (the ל that is customary with verbs of becoming and making), i.e., as an inaccessible fortress, making them secure against any hostile attack. The fact by which He has thus made Himself known now immediately follows. המּלכים points to a definite number of kings known to the poet; it therefore speaks in favour of the time of peril and war in the reign of Jehoshaphat and against that in the reign of Hezekiah. נועד is reciprocal: to appoint themselves a place of meeting, and meet together there. עבר, as in Judges 11:29; 2 Kings 8:21, of crossing the frontier and invasion (Hitzig), not of perishing and destruction, as in Psalm 37:36, Nahum 1:12 (De Wette); for נועדו requires further progress, and the declaration respecting their sudden downfall does not follow till later on. The allies encamped in the desert to Tekoa, about three hours distant from Jerusalem. The extensive view at that point extends even to Jerusalem: as soon as they saw it they were amazed, i.e., the seeing and astonishment, panic and confused flight, occurred all together; there went forth upon them from the Holy City, because Elohim dwells therein, a חרדּת אלהים (1 Samuel 14:15), or as we should say, a panic or a panic-striking terror. Concerning כּן as expressive of simultaneousness, vid., on Habakkuk 3:10. כּאשׁר in the correlative protasis is omitted, as in Hosea 11:2, and frequently; cf. on Isaiah 55:9. Trembling seized upon them there (שׁם, as in Psalm 14:5), pangs as of a woman in travail. In Psalm 48:8, the description passes over emotionally into the form of address. It moulds itself according to the remembrance of a recent event of the poet's own time, viz., the destruction of the merchant fleet fitted out by Jehoshaphat in conjunction with Ahaziah, king of Israel (1 Kings 22:49; 2 Chronicles 20:36.). The general meaning of Psalm 48:8 is, that God's omnipotence is irresistible. Concerning the "wind of the east quarter," which here, as in Ezekiel 27:26, causes shipwreck, vid., on Job 27:21. The "ships of Tarshish," as is clear from the context both before and after, are not meant literally, but used as a figure of the worldly powers; Isaiah (Isaiah 33) also compares Assyria to a gallant ship. Thus, then, the church can say that in the case of Jerusalem it has, as an eye-witness, experienced that which it has hitherto only heard from the tradition of a past age (ראה and שׁמע as in Job 42:5), viz., that God holds it erect, establishes it, for ever. Hengstenberg observes here, "The Jerusalem that has been laid in ruins is not that which the psalmist means; it is only its outward form which it has put off" [lit. its broken and deserted pupa]. It is true that, according to its inner and spiritual nature, Jerusalem continues its existence in the New Testament church; but it is not less true that its being trodden under foot for a season in the kairoi' ethnoo'n no more annuls the promise of God than Israel's temporary rejection annuls Israel's election. The Holy City does not fall without again rising up. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge According thy right Psalm 11:7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright. Psalm 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. Cross References Deuteronomy 28:58 "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God, Joshua 7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?" 1 Chronicles 16:14 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. Psalm 65:1 Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. Psalm 65:2 O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. Psalm 65:5 By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas; Psalm 100:1 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Jump to Previous Earth Ends Filled Full Hand Praise Reaches Right Righteousness VictoryJump to Next Earth Ends Filled Full Hand Praise Reaches Right Righteousness VictoryLinks Psalm 48:10 NIVPsalm 48:10 NLT Psalm 48:10 ESV Psalm 48:10 NASB Psalm 48:10 KJV Psalm 48:10 Bible Apps Psalm 48:10 Biblia Paralela Psalm 48:10 Chinese Bible Psalm 48:10 French Bible Psalm 48:10 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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