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Psalms 48:9
9Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.
Psalms 48:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
- English Standard Version (ESV)We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
- New King James Version (NKJV)We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness, In the midst of Your temple.
- New Living Translation (NLT)O God, we meditate on your unfailing love as we worship in your Temple.
Context of Psalms 48:9
7You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind. 8As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the Lord Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever. Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love. 10Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness. 11Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.
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דִּמִּ֣ינוּ אֱלֹהִ֣ים חַסְדֶּ֑ךָ בְּ֝קֶ֗רֶב הֵיכָלֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 48:9
- Psalms 26:3for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.
- Psalms 77:10Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.
- Psalms 104:34May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the Lord.
- Psalms 105:5Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
- Psalms 40:10I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly.
- Psalms 63:3Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
- Luke 22:19And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
- Psalms 63:2I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
- Psalms 77:12I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.”
- 2 Chronicles 20:5Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple of the Lord in the front of the new courtyard
- Isaiah 26:8Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
Commentaries on Psalms 48:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9We have thought of thy loving-kindness - We went to thy temple to worship thee; we meditated on thy goodness; we waited for a display of it; and the panic that in the first instance struck us, was transferred to our enemies; and fear took hold upon them, they marvelled, were troubled, and hasted away.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God - We have reflected on, or meditated on. The word used here literally means “to compare, to liken;” and this idea is perhaps always implied when it is used in the sense of thinking on, or meditating on. Perhaps the meaning here is, that they had “compared” in their own minds what they had heard from their fathers with what they had now seen; they had called all these things up to their remembrance, and had…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-14Verses 8-14 We have here the improvement which the people of God are to make of his glorious and gracious appearances for them. Let our faith in the word of God be hereby confirmed. Let our hope of the stability of the church be encouraged. Let our minds be filled with good thoughts of God. All the streams of mercy that flow down to us, must be traced to the fountain of His loving-kindness. Let us give to God the glory of the great things he has done for…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-11The psalmist happily celebrates the Lord's presence with the community, thinking about God's faithful, righteous, and just rule.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. thought of--literally, "compared," or considered, in respect of former dealings. in the ... temple--in acts of solemn worship (compare 2Ch 20:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 48
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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