Psalm 48:2

New English Translation

It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.

Cross References

Psalm 135:21

The Lord deserves praise in Zion – he who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 50:2

From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, God comes in splendor.

Psalm 76:2

He lives in Salem; he dwells in Zion.

Psalm 87:3

People say wonderful things about you, O city of God. (Selah)

Psalm 99:9

Praise the Lord our God! Worship on his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy!

Isaiah 14:13

You said to yourself, “I will climb up to the sky. Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. I will rule on the mountain of assembly on the remote slopes of Zaphon.

Isaiah 2:2

In the future the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,

Isaiah 60:14

The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you; all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet. They will call you, ‘The City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.’

Isaiah 66:10

Be happy for Jerusalem and rejoice with her, all you who love her! Share in her great joy, all you who have mourned over her!

Jeremiah 3:19

“I thought to myself, ‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ I thought you would call me, ‘Father’ and would never cease being loyal to me.

Lamentations 2:15

All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem. “Ha! Is this the city they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” פ (Pe)

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Daniel 11:16

The one advancing against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to stand before him. He will prevail in the beautiful land, and its annihilation will be within his power.

Daniel 11:45

He will pitch his royal tents between the seas toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

Daniel 8:9

From one of them came a small horn. But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.

Malachi 1:14

“There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

Malachi 3:12

“All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 5:35

not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly