Psalm 48

“As we have heard, so we have seen ... in the city of our God, God makes her secure forever” (8). Israel only held Jerusalem and its original Temple independently for brief moments in history, yet they could sing with the psalmist: “Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of the whole earth ... the city of the great King” (2), because “Mount Zion”/Jerusalem was more than a place. The “city of God” was wherever God chose to dwell with his people; there, “within your Temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love” (9).

“Walk about Zion,” the psalmist says, consider God’s unfailing mercy and love toward his people (12). He is our security, now and through all generations (13).