Psalm 48:2 Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.

English Standard Version
beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

New American Standard Bible
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion in the far north, The city of the great King.

King James Bible
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
rising splendidly, is the joy of the whole earth. Mount Zion on the slopes of the north is the city of the great King.

International Standard Version
Beautifully situated, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion towards the north, the city of the great King.

American Standard Version
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

Darby Bible Translation
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Young's Literal Translation
Beautiful for elevation, A joy of all the land, is Mount Zion, The sides of the north, the city of a great king.

Cross References

Matthew 5:35
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

Psalm 2:6
Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion.

Psalm 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

Psalm 101:8
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Psalm 132:13
For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.

Psalm 133:3
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended on the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for ever more.

Song of Solomon 6:4
You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Ezekiel 20:6
In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

Ezekiel 24:25
Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

48:1-7 Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in which he is all. There God is known. The clearer discoveries are made to us of the Lord and his greatness, the more it is expected that we should abound in his praises. The earth is, by sin, covered with deformity, therefore justly might that spot of ground, which was beautified with holiness, be called the joy of the whole earth; that which the whole earth has reason to rejoice in, that God would thus in very deed dwell with man upon the earth. The kings of the earth were afraid of it. Nothing in nature can more fitly represent the overthrow of heathenism by the Spirit of the gospel, than the wreck of a fleet in a storm. Both are by the mighty power of the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2, 3. situation—literally, "elevation."

joy of, &c.—source of joy.

sides of the north—poetically for eminent, lofty, distinguished, as the ancients believed the north to be the highest part of the earth (compare Isa 14:13).