As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts ... God will establish it for ever - or 'establisheth it,' etc. That which we have heard from our fathers (Psalms 44:1, etc.) - namely, that thou wilt never fail thy people-we now have seen by experience (Job 42:5) ourselves, in the deliverance by God in His own city. Others explain, 'As we have heard' from Jahaziel's prophecy (2 Chronicles 20:14). Psalms 48:10 (where see note) establishes rather the former view. The declaration, 'God establishes it forever' is not at variance with the fact that God has allowed Jerusalem to be overthrown by Rome; because it is of the faithful Jerusalem that the promise holds good-both the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church, and the literal Jerusalem that is to be, when Israel shall have turned to the Lord (2 Corinthians 3:16; Galatians 4:25-26; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 54:10-11; Isaiah 60:14-15; Isaiah 60:19).