Psalms 48:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. ”

• Psalms 48:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Let mount Zion rejoice - Let Jerusalem, the holy city, rejoice or be glad. Mount Zion is evidently used here to designate the city; and the idea is, that the city of God - the holy city - had occ...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Let (k) mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. (k) Let Jerusalem and the cities of Judea rejoice, for your just judgments against your enemies.

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• Psalms 48:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  XLVIII. A Psalm which Describes the Impression made on a Pilgrim by his Visit to Zion. Psalms 48:1 f. Praise of Zion. sides of the north is hard to comprehend. It has been explained as contras...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  daughters . cities. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for cities (compare Numbers 21:25 . Joshua 17:11 ; Joshua 17:16 ). These cities of Judah had cause for rejoicing, for they were...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11 Mount Zion shall rejoice The Psalmist now concludes his exhortation to rejoicing, telling us that Jerusalem and the other cities of Judea shall have cause to commend the righteousness of...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. Let Mount Zion rejoice - The temple is restored in majesty, which was threatened with total destruction; it is ag...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Let mount Zion rejoice, &c.— Dr. Delaney thinks that these verses allude to the great improvements made at Jerusalem, the temple on mount Moriah, Millo, the house of the forest of Lebanon, the...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments - on our foes. "The...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This Ps. celebrates the safety and glory of Jerusalem, and the praise of her divine King. The deliverance He has wrought is vividly portrayed, and we can hardly fail to recognise that the overthrow o...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Daughters of Judah. — Not the maidens of Jerusalem, but the towns and villages of Judah. Judgments. — Perhaps here, as in Psalms 119:132 , with prominent idea of God’s customary dealings with...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 48:1-14 THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1-11 , with which this psalm has many points of contact. In both we have the same triumph, the same proud affection for the holy city a...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The City of Our God” Psalms 48:1-14 This psalm also probably dates from 2 Chronicles 20:20 . Tekoa was only three hours' march from Jerusalem and commanded an extensive view, so that Psalms...

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• Psalms 48:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In Psa 46:1-11 the dominant note was of confidence, because of the government of God in the midst of His people. This is a song describing the experience resulting from such government. It is the ant...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here the church is called upon, and well she may, to rejoice in her unspeakable felicity.

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• Psalms 48:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Let Mount Zion rejoice ,.... The church in general; see Psalms 48:1 ; let the daughters of Judah be glad ; particular churches; and so the Targum renders it, "the congregations of the house of J...

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• Psalms 48:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. Ver. 11. Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters, &c. ] Let the Church catholic, and each particular mem...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Let mount Zion rejoice That is, Jerusalem; let the daughters of Judah The other lesser cities, towns, and villages; be glad, because of thy judgments Upon thy and their enemies. Let the mother...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  God's Care of His Church.       8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the L ORD of hosts, in the city of our Go...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Mount Zion; synecdochically put for Jerusalem. The daughters of Judah , i.e. the other and lesser cities and towns or villages (i.e. all the people) of Judah; for such are commonly called daughter...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Having Meditated On What Has Happened, God's People Now Declare Their Confidence in God ( Psalms 48:9-11 ). Psalms 48:9-11 ‘We have thought on your covenant love, O God, In the midst of your t...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Superscription . “ A Song and Psalm .” “It is not easy,” says Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish between the meaning of these words, though probably t...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 48 There is one event, and only one, in Jewish history which corresponds point for point to the details of this Psalm the crushing destruction of the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. We may...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 48:1-3 . Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the side...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Title. A psalm for the sons of Korah. Asaph being dead, and his sons not named, we infer that the psalm, as many think, was composed on the Assyrian invasion; for then God was truly great in Zion,...

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• Psalms 48:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. A song of deliverance The psalm has manifestly some historical basis. What is it? The psalm gives these points--a formidable muster before Jerusale...

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• Psalms 48:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for either of the two preceding psalms. Israel had now bee...

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• Psalms 48:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zion as a Type of the Christian Church. A song and psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number to set forth the privileges and blessings of God's dominion in His Church.

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• Psalms 48:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 20:26 ; 2 Chronicles 20:27 ; Isaiah 37:22 ; Judges 5:31 ; Luke 23:28 ; Psalms 137:8 ; Psalms 137:9 ; Psalms 58:10 ; Psalms 97:8 ; Revelation 15:4 ; Revelation 16:5-7 ; Revela...

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• Psalms 48:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Judgments — Upon thine and their enemies.

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