Psalm 48:2 - Tree of Life Version

² Great is Adonai, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God —His holy mountain.

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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:

Psalm 48:2 Cross References

Psalm 135:21

Blessed be Adonai out of Zion, who dwells in Jerusalem. Halleluyah!

Psalm 50:2

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

Psalm 76:2

In Judah God is known. In Israel His Name is great.

Psalm 87:3

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

Psalm 99:9

Exalt Adonai our God, and worship at His holy hill, for holy is Adonai our God.

Isaiah 14:13

You said in your heart: “I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit upon the mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north.

Isaiah 2:2

It will come to pass in the last days that the mountain of Adonai’s House will stand firm as head of the mountains and will be exalted above the hills. So all nations will flow to it.

Isaiah 60:14

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you, and all those who despised you will fall at the soles of your feet. They will call you the city of Adonai, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 66:10

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her all you who mourned over her.

Jeremiah 3:19

“Then I Myself said: ‘How gladly would I make you sons and give you a pleasant land— the most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ I thought you would call Me—Avi!— and would not turn from following Me.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass your way clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty,’ ‘the joy of the whole earth’?”

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I lifted up My hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had sought out for them, flowing with milk and honey, the splendor of all lands.

Daniel 11:16

But the invader will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to stand against him. He will take his stand in the beautiful land and its devastation in his hand.

Daniel 11:45

He will pitch his royal tents between the seas and the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will meet his doom with no one to help him.’

Daniel 8:9

“Out of one of them came forth a small horn, which grew extremely large to the south and the east, and toward the beautiful land.

Malachi 1:14

“Moreover, cursed is a deceiver who has in his flock a male, but makes a vow and sacrifices something blemished to my Lord. For I am a great King,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “and My Name shall be revered among the nations.”

Malachi 3:12

“All the nations will call you blessed. For you will be a land of delight,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Matthew 5:35

or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion— to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, a joyous gathering,