Psalms 48:3
God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
Psalms 48:3 in other translations
| BSB | God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress. |
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| WEB | God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge. |
| ASV | God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge. |
| YLT | God in her high places is known for a tower. |
| DARBY | God is known in her palaces as a high fortress. |
| BBE | In its buildings God is seen to be a high tower. |
| Webster | God is known in her palaces for a refuge. |
What does Psalms 48:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 48:2-3
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 Is 14:13).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 48:1-7
The glories of the church of Christ. Verses 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…
Psalms 48:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 48:3
- Zechariah 2:4-5
And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
- Psalms 125:1
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
- Psalms 46:7
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Isaiah 37:33-36
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake. Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Psalms 76:1-5
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion. There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. …
- Isaiah 4:5-6
And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
- 2 Chronicles 14:9-15
And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. …
- 2 Chronicles 12:7
And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
- 2 Chronicles 20:1-37
It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon–tamar, which is En–gedi. And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. …
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Context
- 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.
- Psalms 48:3
God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
- Psalms 48:4
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
Psalms 48:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Dios en sus palacios es conocido por refugio. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Belle dans son élévation, la joie de toute la terre, est la montagne de Sion, aux côtés du nord, la ville du grand roi; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gott ist bekannt in ihren Palästen als eine hohe Feste. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quique terrigenæ et filii hominum, simul in unum dives et pauper. |