Psalm 48:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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,