Psalms 48:8
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
KJV
Frater non redimit, redimet homo : non dabit Deo placationem suam,
Vulgate
ἀδελφὸς οὐ λυτροῦται· λυτρώσεται ἄνθρωπος; οὐ δώσει τῷ θεῷ ἐξίλασμα αὐτοῦ,
LXX
As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. [Selah
ASV
בְּ/ר֥וּחַ קָדִ֑ים תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗ר אֳנִיּ֥וֹת תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֳנִיּ֣וֹת
'nyvt
noun · 32×
ה
h
noun · 69×
ה
h
proper_noun · 28×
נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ
nshbrv
verb · 149×
ר֣וּחַ
rvch
noun · 377×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. There are many things characteristic of Christianity: but more than all, and better than all, Love towards one another, and Peace. Therefore Christ also says, My peace I give unto you. John 14:27 And again, By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you love one another. John 13:35 Therefore Paul too says, Follow peace with all men, and holiness, that is, purit…
Preface, Explaining His Design in Undertaking This Work. The glorious city of God2828 [Augustin uses the term civitas Dei (πόλις θεοῦ) of the church universal as a commonwealth and community founded and governed by God. It is applied in the Bible to Jerusalem or the church of the Old Covenant (Ps. xl. 6, 4; xlviii. 1, 8; lxxxvii. 3), and to the heavenly Jerusalem or the church …
Cross-references
- Isa 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unt
- Matt 16:18 — And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
- Mic 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow
- Ps 44:1 — We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Ps 46:4 — There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
- Ps 46:5 — God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
- Ps 48:1 — Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
- Ps 78:3 — Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Ps 78:3 — Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Ps 87:5 — And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
- Ps 87:5 — And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
- Ps 101:8 — I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
- Rev 3:12 — Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,