SEV Biblia, Chapter 48:1
¶ Canción de Salmo a los hijos de Coré. Grande es el SEÑOR y digno de ser en gran manera alabado en la ciudad de nuestro Dios, en el monte de su santidad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:1
Verse 1. Great is the Lord ] This verse should be joined to the last verse of the preceding Psalm, as it is a continuation of the same subject; and indeed in some of Kennicott's MSS. it is written as a part of the foregoing. That concluded with He is greatly exalted; this begins with Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; i.e., He should be praised according to his greatness; no common praise is suited to the nature and dignity of the Supreme God.
In the city of our God ] That is, in the temple; or in Jerusalem, where the temple was situated.
The mountain of his holiness. ] Mount Moriah, on which the temple was built. The ancient city of Jerusalem, which David took from the Jebusites, was on the south of Mount Zion, on which the temple was built, though it might be said to be more properly on Mount Moriah, which is one of the hills of which Mount Zion is composed. The temple therefore was to the north of the city, as the psalmist here states, ver. 2: "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." But some think that it is the city that is said to be on the north, and Reland contends that the temple was on the south of the city.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honou except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in which he is all There God is known. The clearer discoveries are made to us of the Lor and his greatness, the more it is expected that we should abound in his praises. The earth is, by sin, covered with deformity, therefore justl might that spot of ground, which was beautified with holiness, be called the joy of the whole earth; that which the whole earth ha reason to rejoice in, that God would thus in very deed dwell with ma upon the earth. The kings of the earth were afraid of it. Nothing in nature can more fitly represent the overthrow of heathenism by the Spirit of the gospel, than the wreck of a fleet in a storm. Both are by the mighty power of the Lord.
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