Acts 15:14-16; Amos 9:11; Deuteronomy 11:19; Isaiah 58:12; Joel 1:3; Psalms 71:18; Psalms 78:4
Mark ye well her bulwarks - Margin, as in Hebrew, “Set your heart to her bulwarks.” That is, Pay close attention to them; make the investigation...
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 ha...
bulwarks . outer walls or ramparts. Consider . single out. Occurs only here.
DISCOURSE: 581 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY IN GOD Psalms 48:12-14 . Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof: mark ye well her...
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. Mark ye well her bulwarks - See the redoubts by w...
Let mount Zion rejoice, &c.— Dr. Delaney thinks that these verses allude to the great improvements made at Jerusalem, the temple on mount Moria...
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. Mark ye her bulwarks, consider her palaces....
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...
Consider. — The Hebrew word is peculiar to this passage. The root idea seems to be divide, and the natural sense of divide her palaces is, tak...
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 tri...
“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...
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 experi...
Strangers are challenged to see if they can discover any tokens like ruin, or want, or misery. No! Zion still flourisheth, and must flourish, and be...
Mark ye well her bulwarks ,.... Such as the free favour of God in Christ; which is not only as a shield, but as a bulwark to the church; his everlas...
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following. Ver. 13. Mark ye well her bulwarks ] Not at al...
Walk about Zion , &c. He speaks probably to the people of the city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of the glorious work God had wrought...
God's Care of His Church. 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the...
Consider; or, exalt , or admire , Tell it to the generation following , that they may be excited to continue their praises to God for this mercy...
The Triumphant Inspection ( Psalms 48:12-14 ). This may well originally have indicated a celebratory inspection of the walls carried out in triump...
INTRODUCTION Superscription . “ A Song and Psalm .” “It is not easy,” says Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish betwe...
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 destruct...
Psalms 48:11-13 I. There are times when heart and brain fail and are weary beneath the weight of the years that have been and the thought of those...
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...
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is not every Psalm that is a song, for some Psalms are full of sorrow and it is not every song that is a P...
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 Assyria...
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...
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God. “As we have heard, so have we seen” This is seldom...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. The love of Zion So they revered the city on the hill. Their affections clust...
EXPOSITION HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for eith...
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 ble...
Mark ye well her bulwarks, setting their hearts upon the fortifications of the Church, consider her palaces, the many fine congregations in which t...
Tell it — That they may continue their praises to God for this mercy, by which they hold and enjoy all their blessings.
13 Marka ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.