Psalm 48:2-3 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.… The situation (of Mount Zion) is, indeed, eminently adapted to be the platform of a magnificent citadel. Rising high above the deep Valley of Gihon and Hinnom on the West and South, and the scarcely less deep one of the Cheesemongers on the East, it could only be assailed from the Northwest; and then "on the side of the North" it was magnificently beautiful, and fortified by walls, towers and bulwarks, the wonder and terror of the nations. Alas her towers have long since fallen to the ground, her bulwarks have been overthrown, her palaces have crumbled to the dust, and we who now walk about Zion can tell no other story than this to the generation following. There is another Zion, however, whose towers are still more glorious and shall never be overthrown. (W. M. Thomson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. |
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