Psalm 48:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King.

Cross References

Psalm 135:21

Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.

Psalm 50:2

From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.

Psalm 76:2

In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.

Psalm 87:3

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. Selah.

Psalm 99:9

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

Isaiah 14:13

For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

Isaiah 2:2

And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

Isaiah 60:14

And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 66:10

Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

Lamentations 2:15

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Ezekiel 20:6

In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:

Daniel 11:16

And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction.

Daniel 11:45

He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.

Daniel 8:9

And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.

Malachi 1:14

A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.

Malachi 3:12

And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

Matthew 5:35

Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,