Psalm 48:8 {47:9}
Good News Translation
We have heard what God has done, and now we have seen it in the city of our God, the LORD Almighty; he will keep the city safe forever.

New Revised Standard Version
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God establishes forever. Selah

Contemporary English Version
We had heard about it, and now we have seen it in the city of our God, the LORD All-Powerful. This is the city that God will let stand forever.

New American Bible
What we had heard we have now seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, In the city of our God, which God establishes forever. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

As we

Psalm 44:1,2 Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God. [1] Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. . . .

Psalm 78:3-6 How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. . . .

Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

city of the Lord

Psalm 48:1,2 A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week. [2] Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. . . .

God

Psalm 46:5 God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.

Psalm 87:5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

Isaiah 2:2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

Micah 4:1 Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.

Matthew 16:18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Context
Broken Bondage
7With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis. 8As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.9We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.…
Cross References
Psalm 87:3
Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

Psalm 87:5
Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

Psalm 101:8
In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Psalm 48:7
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