Psalm 48:2

New Living Translation

It is high and magnificent; the whole earth rejoices to see it! Mount Zion, the holy mountain, is the city of the great King!

Cross References

Psalm 135:21

The Lord be praised from Zion, for he lives here in Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 50:2

From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines in glorious radiance.

Psalm 76:2

Jerusalem is where he lives; Mount Zion is his home.

Psalm 87:3

O city of God, what glorious things are said of you! Interlude

Psalm 99:9

Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain in Jerusalem, for the Lord our God is holy!

Isaiah 14:13

For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north.

Isaiah 2:2

In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of all— the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there to worship.

Isaiah 60:14

The descendants of your tormentors will come and bow before you. Those who despised you will kiss your feet. They will call you the City of the Lord, and Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 66:10

“Rejoice with Jerusalem! Be glad with her, all you who love her and all you who mourn for her.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I thought to myself, ‘I would love to treat you as my own children!’ I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land— the finest possession in the world. I looked forward to your calling me ‘Father,’ and I wanted you never to turn from me.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass by jeer at you. They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World’ and ‘Joy of All the Earth’?”

Ezekiel 20:6

I took a solemn oath that day that I would bring them out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them—a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.

Daniel 11:16

“The king of the north will march onward unopposed; none will be able to stop him. He will pause in the glorious land of Israel, intent on destroying it.

Daniel 11:45

He will stop between the glorious holy mountain and the sea and will pitch his royal tents. But while he is there, his time will suddenly run out, and no one will help him.

Daniel 8:9

Then from one of the prominent horns came a small horn whose power grew very great. It extended toward the south and the east and toward the glorious land of Israel.

Malachi 1:14

“Cursed is the cheat who promises to give a fine ram from his flock but then sacrifices a defective one to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and my name is feared among the nations!

Malachi 3:12

“Then all nations will call you blessed, for your land will be such a delight,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Matthew 5:35

And do not say, ‘By the earth!’ because the earth is his footstool. And do not say, ‘By Jerusalem!’ for Jerusalem is the city of the great King.

Hebrews 12:22

No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering.