| Psalm 48 | |
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| "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised" | |
 Psalm 48 quoted on the back of a 17th-century double-sided icon held in Jerusalem | |
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| Language | Hebrew (original) |
| Psalm 48 | |
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← Psalm 47 Psalm 49 → | |
| Book | Book of Psalms |
| Hebrew Bible part | Ketuvim |
| Order in the Hebrew part | 1 |
| Category | Sifrei Emet |
| Christian Bible part | Old Testament |
| Order in the Christian part | 19 |
Psalm 48 is the 48th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and generally in its Latin translations, this psalm is Psalm 47. In the Vulgate, it begins "Magnus Dominus".[1] The psalm was composed by the sons of Korah, as "a celebration of the security of Zion",[2] In its heading it is referred to as both a "song" and a "psalm".[3]
The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies, and has been set to music. Bach's 1729 cantata Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171, begins with verse 10 in German, and Penderecki's 1996 Symphony No. 7 begins with the first verse.
- ^ Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 47 (48) Archived May 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine medievalist.net
- ^ Psalm 48: footnote at verse 2 in the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition, accessed 23 October 2020
- ^ Barnes, A. (1834), Barnes' Notes on Psalm 48, accessed 17 November 2021