Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 48:1

“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.”

Psalms 48:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 48:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 48. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Micah 4:1But 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 s…
  • Zechariah 8:3Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain…
  • Psalms 96:4For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
  • Isaiah 2:2And 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 shal…
  • Psalms 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
  • Psalms 145:3Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
  • Revelation 21:2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  • Psalms 87:3Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
  • Psalms 47:8God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
  • Revelation 21:10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
  • Matthew 24:15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
  • Psalms 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
  • Psalms 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
  • Psalms 99:9Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 19:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 118:6Psalms 30:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.