Psalm 48:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Fair and beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth–Mount Zion [the City of David], to the northern side [Mount Moriah and the temple], the [whole] city of the Great King! [Matt. 5:35.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.

Common English Bible

² is a beautiful summit, the joy of the whole world. Mount Zion, in the far north, is the city of the great king.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Hear these things, all nations. Pay attention, all inhabitants of the world:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

Psalm 48:2 Cross References

Psalm 135:21

Blessed be the Lord from Zion, he who resides in Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Psalm 76:2

His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

Psalm 87:3

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah

Psalm 99:9

Extol the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.

Isaiah 14:13

You said to yourself, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Zaphon;

Isaiah 2:2

In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it.

Isaiah 60:14

The descendants of those who oppressed you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 66:10

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her—

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought how I would set you among my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,” and would not turn from following me.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.

Daniel 11:16

But he who comes against him shall take the actions he pleases, and no one shall withstand him. He shall take a position in the beautiful land, and all of it shall be in his power.

Daniel 11:45

He shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with no one to help him.

Daniel 8:9

Out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the beautiful land.

Malachi 1:14

Cursed be the cheat who has a male in the flock and vows to give it and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished, for I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is reverenced among the nations.

Malachi 3:12

Then all nations will count you happy, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 5:35

or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,