Psalm 48:1

God Our King

¹ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, His holy mountain.
²
Fair and beautiful in elevation, the joy of all the earth,
Is Mount Zion [the City of David] in the far north,
The city of the great King.

City of Our God

Great is the Lord

His Holy Hill

Holy Hill

Holy Mountain

Lord is Great

Jehovah

Korah

Psalm 46:4

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

Micah 4:1

But it shall come about in the last days
That the mountain of the house of the Lord
Shall be established as the highest and chief of the mountains;
It shall be above the hills,
And peoples shall flow [like a river] to it.

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the Lord, ‘I shall return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the [faithful] City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’

Psalm 145:3

Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is [so vast and profound as to be] unsearchable [incomprehensible to man].

Isaiah 2:2-3

Now it will come to pass that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be [firmly] established as the highest of the mountains,
And will be exalted above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.

Psalm 96:4

For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all gods.

2 Chronicles 20:1-37

Now it happened after this that the Moabites and the Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.

Nehemiah 9:5

Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless (praise, honor) the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting.

May Your glorious name be blessed
And exalted above all blessing and praise.”

Psalm 2:6

“Yet as for Me, I have anointed and firmly installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Psalm 30:1

I will extol and praise You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable],
A very present and well-proved help in trouble.

Psalm 47:8

God reigns over the nations;
God sits on His holy throne.

Psalm 65:1

To You belongs silence [the submissive wonder of reverence], and [it bursts into] praise in Zion, O God;
And to You the vow shall be performed.

Psalm 78:68

But He chose the tribe of Judah [as Israel’s leader],
Mount Zion, which He loved [to replace Shiloh as His capital].

Psalm 86:10

For You are great and do wondrous works!
You alone are God.

Psalm 87:1

His foundation is on the holy mountain.

Psalm 87:3

Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.

Psalm 89:1-7

I will sing of the goodness and lovingkindness of the Lord forever;
With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.

Psalm 99:3-4

Let them [reverently] praise Your great and awesome name;
Holy is He.

Psalm 99:9

Exalt the Lord our God
And worship at His holy hill [Zion, the temple mount],
For the Lord our God is holy.

Psalm 147:5

Great is our [majestic and mighty] Lord and abundant in strength;
His understanding is inexhaustible [infinite, boundless].

Isaiah 27:13

It will come to pass in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost and perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 31:23

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once more they will speak these words in the land of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and in her cities when I restore their fortunes and release them from exile,

‘The Lord bless you, O habitation of justice and righteousness,
O holy mountain!’

Obadiah 1:17

“But on Mount Zion [in Jerusalem] there shall be [deliverance for] those who escape,
And it shall be holy [no pagan will defile it];
And the house of Jacob shall possess their [former] possessions.

Matthew 24:15

“So when you see the abomination of desolation [the appalling sacrilege that astonishes and makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader understand),

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering],

Revelation 15:3-4

And they sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

“Great and wonderful and awe-inspiring are Your works [in judgment],

O Lord God, the Almighty [the Omnipotent, the Ruler of all];
Righteous and true are Your ways,
O King of the nations!

Revelation 19:5

Then from the throne there came a voice, saying,

“Praise our God, all you bond-servants of His, you who fear Him, the small (common) and the great (distinguished).”

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, arrayed like a bride adorned for her husband;

Revelation 21:10-22

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a vast and lofty mountain, and showed me the holy (sanctified) city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,