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Literal Standard Version

Psalms 48:9

We have thought, O God, of Your kindness, || In the midst of Your temple,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   God Continued...;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mind, Carnal-Spiritual;   Thoughts;   Wise;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Loving-Kindness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Justification (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Invocation;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 12;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God, within your temple,we contemplate your faithful love.
Hebrew Names Version
We have thought about your lovingkindness, God, In the midst of your temple.
King James Version
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
English Standard Version
We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
New Century Version
God, we come into your Temple to think about your love.
New English Translation
We reflect on your loyal love, O God, within your temple.
Amplified Bible
We have thought of Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.
New American Standard Bible
We have thought over Your goodness, God, In the midst of Your temple.
World English Bible
We have thought about your lovingkindness, God, In the midst of your temple.
Geneva Bible (1587)
We waite for thy louing kindnes, O God, in the middes of thy Temple.
Legacy Standard Bible
We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God,In the midst of Your temple.
Berean Standard Bible
Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
Contemporary English Version
Our God, here in your temple we think about your love.
Complete Jewish Bible
We heard it, and now we see for ourselves in the city of Adonai -Tzva'ot, in the city of our God. May God establish it forever. (Selah)
Darby Translation
We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.
Easy-to-Read Version
God, in your Temple we remember your loving kindness.
George Lamsa Translation
We have trusted upon thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Good News Translation
Inside your Temple, O God, we think of your constant love.
Lexham English Bible
We have pondered your loyal love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
Literal Translation
We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of Your temple.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sela. We wayte for thy louynge kyndnesse (o God) in the myddest of thy temple.
American Standard Version
We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple.
Bible in Basic English
Our thoughts were of your mercy, O God, while we were in your Temple.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
As we have heard, so have we seen {N}God establish it for ever. Selah
King James Version (1611)
Wee haue thought of thy louing kindnesse, O God, in the middest of thy Temple.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Lorde we haue wayted: for thy louyng kindnesse in the myddest of thy temple.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
We have thought of thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy people.
English Revised Version
We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, we han resseyued thi mercy; in the myddis of thi temple.
Update Bible Version
We have thought on your loving-kindness, O God, In the midst of your temple.
Webster's Bible Translation
We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
New King James Version
We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness, In the midst of Your temple.
New Living Translation
O God, we meditate on your unfailing love as we worship in your Temple.
New Life Bible
O God, we have thought about Your loving-kindness within Your holy house.
New Revised Standard
We ponder your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
We have thought, O God, upon thy lovingkindness, In the midst of thy temple:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(47-10) We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Revised Standard Version
We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Young's Literal Translation
We have thought, O God, of Thy kindness, In the midst of Thy temple,
THE MESSAGE
We pondered your love-in-action, God, waiting in your temple: Your name, God, evokes a train of Hallelujahs wherever It is spoken, near and far; your arms are heaped with goodness-in-action.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.

Contextual Overview

8As we have heard, so we have seen, || In the city of YHWH of hosts, || In the city of our God, God establishes her for all time. Selah. 9We have thought, O God, of Your kindness, || In the midst of Your temple,10As [is] Your Name, O God, so [is] Your praise, || Over the ends of the earth, || Righteousness has filled Your right hand. 11Mount Zion rejoices, || The daughters of Judah are joyful, || For the sake of Your judgments. 12Surround Zion, and go around her, count her towers, 13Set your heart to her bulwark, || Consider her high places, || So that you recount to a later generation, 14That this God [is] our God—For all time and forever, || He leads us over death!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thought: Psalms 26:3, Psalms 77:10, Psalms 77:11, Psalms 104:34, Psalms 105:5, Psalms 105:6

lovingkindness: Psalms 40:10, Psalms 63:3, Song of Solomon 1:4, Luke 22:19, Luke 22:20

in the: Psalms 63:2, Psalms 77:12-14, 2 Chronicles 20:5-13, Isaiah 26:8

Reciprocal: Psalms 29:9 - in his temple Psalms 52:9 - wait Psalms 135:21 - which dwelleth

Cross-References

Genesis 27:4
and make tasteful things for me, [such] as I have loved, and bring [them] to me, and I eat, so that my soul blesses you before I die."
Genesis 30:2
And Jacob's anger burns against Rachel, and he says, "Am I in stead of God who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Genesis 33:5
and he lifts up his eyes, and sees the women and the children, and says, "What [are] these to you?" And he says, "The children with whom God has favored your servant."
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob says to Joseph, "God Almighty has appeared to me, in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blesses me,
Genesis 48:4
and says to me, Behold, I am making you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and given you for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to your seed after you, a continuous possession.
Genesis 48:5
And now, your two sons, who are born to you in the land of Egypt, before my coming to you to Egypt, they [are] mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon, they are mine;
Genesis 48:11
and Israel says to Joseph, "I had not thought [possible] to see your face, and behold, God has also showed me your seed."
Genesis 48:14
And Israel puts out his right hand and places [it] on the head of Ephraim, who [is] the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh; he has guided his hands wisely, for Manasseh [is] the firstborn.
Genesis 48:20
and he blesses them in that day, saying, "By you does Israel bless, saying, God set you as Ephraim and as Manasseh"; and he sets Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 48:21
And Israel says to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, and God has been with you, and has brought you back to the land of your fathers;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God,.... Jarchi interprets it, "we have waited for thy lovingkindness"; to see thy salvation; and some, as Ben Melech observes, explain it of hope and expectation; as if the sense was, "we have hoped for thy lovingkindness"; so the Syriac version renders it, and the word used has the signification of tarrying, 1 Samuel 14:9. God has his set time to favour his Zion, and till that time comes it is right in them to be hoping, expecting, and waiting for it. The Chaldee paraphrase is, "we have esteemed thy goodness"; it being very excellent, exceeding valuable, and better than life itself; but other Jewish writers, as Menachem, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, render it as we do, "we have thought", c. The lovingkindness of God towards his people in Christ is a very delightful and profitable subject to dwell in meditation upon, to consider the objects, instances, cause, and nature of it and serves greatly to encourage faith and hope, to draw out love to God, and engage to a ready and cheerful obedience to his will; and this is sometimes done in public, as well as in private conversation, and in the closet; as follows;

in the midst of thy temple; the church of Christ, which is of his building, where he dwells, and grants his presence, and is often called the temple of God in the New Testament, in allusion to Solomon's temple; see 1 Corinthians 3:16; here the word of God is preached, his ordinances administered, and his presence granted; which are instances of his lovingkindness, and lead his people to think of it; and particularly when the faithful ministers of the Gospel make mention of it, and the ordinance of the supper is administering, which is intended to bring to remembrance the love of God and Christ: moreover, in the latter day, to which this psalm belongs, the temple of God will be opened, Revelation 11:19; that is, the true worship of God will be restored, and pure and undefiled religion freely exercised; the Gospel will be clearly and fully preached; and the ordinances administered as they were first delivered, which will lead the saints to think of the lovingkindness of God unto them; and particularly when they shall see the angels with the seven vials the executioners of God's wrath on the antichristian states, go forth from the temple to pour them out upon them, Revelation 15:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God - We have reflected on, or meditated on. The word used here literally means “to compare, to liken;” and this idea is perhaps always implied when it is used in the sense of thinking on, or meditating on. Perhaps the meaning here is, that they had “compared” in their own minds what they had heard from their fathers with what they had now seen; they had called all these things up to their remembrance, and had compared the one with the other.

In the midst of thy temple - See the notes at Psalms 5:7. The allusion here most probably is to the “temple,” properly so called, as these transactions are supposed to have occurred after the building of the temple by Solomon. The expression here also would make it probable that the psalm was composed after the defeat and overthrow of the armies referred to, in order that it might be used in the temple in celebrating the deliverance.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 48:9. We have thought of thy loving-kindness — We went to thy temple to worship thee; we meditated on thy goodness; we waited for a display of it; and the panic that in the first instance struck us, was transferred to our enemies; and fear took hold upon them, they marvelled, were troubled, and hasted away.


 
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