Psalm 48:2

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Summary

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

Beautiful

Daniel 11:16

Joy

Hebrews 12:22

On the sides

Isaiah 14:13

Bible References

Beautiful

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.

“Then I said,
‘How I would set you among My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father,
And not turn away from following Me.’

All who pass along the way

Clap their hands in derision at you;

They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,

A joy to all the earth’?”

Out of one of them came forth a rather small horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the

Beautiful Land.

But he who comes against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the

Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.

Joy

“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated
With no one passing through,
I will make you an everlasting pride,
A joy from generation to generation.

“Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her;
Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her,

on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

“All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land,” says the Lord of hosts.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

On the sides

“But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.