Psalms 48:13

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Consider its defenses! Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!

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  • Ps 122:7 : 7 May there be peace inside your defenses, and prosperity inside your fortresses!
  • Isa 58:12 : 12 Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called,‘The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.’
  • Joel 1:3 : 3 Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
  • Amos 9:11 : 11 The Restoration of the Davidic Dynasty“In that day I will rebuild the collapsing hut of David. I will seal its gaps, repair its ruins, and restore it to what it was like in days gone by.
  • Acts 15:14-16 : 14 Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name. 15 The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written, 16 ‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,
  • Deut 11:19 : 19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.
  • Ps 78:4-6 : 4 we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the LORD’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done. 5 He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants, 6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

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  • Ps 48:11-12
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    11Mount Zion rejoices; the towns of Judah are happy, because of your acts of judgment.

    12Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!

  • Ps 48:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1A song, a psalm by the Korahites. The LORD is great and certainly worthy of praise in the city of our God, his holy hill.

    2It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.

    3God is in its fortresses; he reveals himself as its defender.

    4For look, the kings assemble; they advance together.

  • 3Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

  • 8We heard about God’s mighty deeds, now we have seen them, in the city of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, in the city of our God. God makes it permanently secure.(Selah)

  • 6so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

  • 20Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals! You will see Jerusalem, a peaceful settlement, a tent that stays put; its stakes will never be pulled up; none of its ropes will snap in two.

  • 15for every high tower, for every fortified wall,

  • 5The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

  • 1Judah Will Celebrate At that time this song will be sung in the land of Judah:“We have a strong city! The LORD’s deliverance, like walls and a rampart, makes it secure.

  • 18I, the LORD, hereby promise to make you as strong as a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall. You will be able to stand up against all who live in the land, including the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and all the people of the land.

  • 6I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!

  • 10The LORD commanded the enemy,“March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the LORD.

  • 13For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.

  • 3People say wonderful things about you, O city of God.(Selah)

  • Ps 128:5-6
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    5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life,

    6and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!

  • 10You counted the houses in Jerusalem, and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall.

  • 14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

  • 10Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations!

  • 38Jerusalem Will Be Enlarged“Indeed a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate.

  • 8Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

  • 10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

  • 16They are saying,‘Announce to the surrounding nations,“The enemy is coming!” Proclaim this message to Jerusalem:“Those who besiege cities are coming from a distant land. They are ready to raise the battle cry against the towns in Judah.”’

  • 16Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.

  • 27The LORD said to me,“I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.”

  • 7May there be peace inside your defenses, and prosperity inside your fortresses!

  • 8As for you, watchtower for the flock, fortress of Daughter Zion– your former dominion will be restored, the sovereignty that belongs to Daughter Jerusalem.

  • 6For this is what the Lord has told me:“Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.

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    27but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’

    28We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’

  • 8So now, in the sight of all Israel, the LORD’s assembly, and in the hearing of our God, I say this: Carefully observe all the commands of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and may leave it as a permanent inheritance for your children after you.

  • 7Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said,“Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”

  • 5So come on, let’s go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.’

  • 18Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

  • 14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.

  • 4we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the LORD’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

  • Ps 122:2-3
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    2Our feet are standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

    3Jerusalem is a city designed to accommodate an assembly.

  • 2Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it.

  • 11Many nations have now assembled against you. They say,“Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”

  • 1Proclamation of the Destruction of Nineveh(2:2)“An enemy who will scatter you, Nineveh, has advanced against you!”“Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!”

  • 12Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called,‘The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.’

  • 10Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:

  • 19and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,

  • 18The account of his intervention will be recorded for future generations; people yet to be born will praise the LORD.

  • 2Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.