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Psalms 50:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Gathering;   Judges;   Righteousness;   Saints;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Excellency and Glory of the Church, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Perfect, Perfection;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ancient of Days;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Psalms, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Perfect;   Shine;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didascalia;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
From Zion, the perfection of beauty,God appears in radiance.
Hebrew Names Version
Out of Tziyon, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
King James Version
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
English Standard Version
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
New Century Version
God shines from Jerusalem, whose beauty is perfect.
New English Translation
From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, God comes in splendor.
Amplified Bible
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
New American Standard Bible
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.
World English Bible
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.
Legacy Standard Bible
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,God has shone forth.
Berean Standard Bible
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Contemporary English Version
God shines brightly from Zion, the most beautiful city.
Complete Jewish Bible
Out of Tziyon, the perfection of beauty, God is shining forth.
Darby Translation
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
Easy-to-Read Version
God appeared from Zion, the city of perfect beauty.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
Good News Translation
God shines from Zion, the city perfect in its beauty.
Lexham English Bible
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Literal Translation
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Out of Sion apeareth the glorious beutie of God.
American Standard Version
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
Bible in Basic English
From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
King James Version (1611)
Out of Sion the perfection of beautie, God hath shined.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Out of Sion: hath the Lorde appeared in perfect beautie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.
English Revised Version
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
fro the risynge of the sunne til to the goyng doun. The schap of his fairnesse fro Syon,
Update Bible Version
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.
Webster's Bible Translation
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
New King James Version
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth.
New Living Translation
From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines in glorious radiance.
New Life Bible
God shines from Zion, perfect in beauty.
New Revised Standard
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-2) Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
Revised Standard Version
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Young's Literal Translation
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

Contextual Overview

1An Asaph Psalm The God of gods—it's God !—speaks out, shouts, "Earth!" welcomes the sun in the east, farewells the disappearing sun in the west. From the dazzle of Zion, God blazes into view. Our God makes his entrance, he's not shy in his coming. Starbursts of fireworks precede him. 4He summons heaven and earth as a jury, he's taking his people to court: "Round up my saints who swore on the Bible their loyalty to me." 6 The whole cosmos attests to the fairness of this court, that here God is judge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Out: Psalms 68:24, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 26:21, Hosea 5:15, Habakkuk 2:20, Hebrews 12:22-26

perfection: Psalms 48:2, Psalms 87:2, Psalms 87:3, Psalms 80:17, Song of Solomon 5:16, Zechariah 9:17

God: Psalms 80:1, Deuteronomy 33:2, Habakkuk 3:3, Habakkuk 3:4, Revelation 1:16, Revelation 21:23

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 16:29 - the beauty 2 Chronicles 20:21 - the beauty Job 40:10 - glory Psalms 2:6 - my Psalms 27:4 - behold Psalms 53:6 - out Psalms 90:17 - And let Psalms 96:6 - strength Psalms 99:2 - great Isaiah 35:2 - they shall Isaiah 42:14 - long time Lamentations 1:6 - all Lamentations 2:15 - Is this Ezekiel 7:20 - the beauty Ezekiel 16:13 - and thou wast Ezekiel 24:25 - their strength Ezekiel 27:3 - I am Zechariah 11:10 - Beauty 2 Corinthians 4:4 - shine 2 Thessalonians 1:8 - flaming

Cross-References

Genesis 50:26
Joseph died at the age of 110 years. They embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they could embalm him. Very early on Sunday morning, as the sun rose, they went to the tomb. They worried out loud to each other, "Who will roll back the stone from the tomb for us?"
Luke 24:1
At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared. They found the entrance stone rolled back from the tomb, so they walked in. But once inside, they couldn't find the body of the Master Jesus.
John 12:7
Jesus said, "Let her alone. She's anticipating and honoring the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you. You don't always have me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Or "shall shine" p; the past for the future, as Kimchi observes; or "the perfection of the beauty of God hath shined out of Zion" q; that is, Christ; he is the perfection of beauty; he is fairer than the children of men; he is more glorious than the angels in heaven: as Mediator, he is full of grace and truth, which makes him very lovely and amiable to his people: he is the express image of his Father's person; and the glory of all the divine perfections is conspicuous in his work of salvation, as well as in himself: now as he was to come out of Zion,

Psalms 14:7; that is, not from the fort of Zion, or city of Jerusalem; for he was to be born at Bethlehem; only he was to be of the Jews, and spring from them; so he shone out, or his appearance and manifestation in Israel was like the rising sun; see Malachi 4:2; and the love and kindness of God in the mission and gift of him appeared and shone out in like manner, Titus 3:4; or else the Gospel may be meant, which has a beauty in it: it is a glorious Gospel, and holds forth the beauty and glory of Christ. All truth is lovely and amiable, especially evangelical truth: it has a divine beauty on it; it comes from God, and bears his impress; yea, it is a perfection of beauty: it contains a perfect plan of truth, and is able to make the man of God perfect; and this was to come out of Zion, Isaiah 2:3; and which great light first arose in Judea, and from thence shone out in the Gentile world, like the sun in all its lustre and glory, Titus 2:11; or, according to our version, "God hath shined out of Zion"; which, as Ben Melech on the text observes, is the perfection of beauty; see Lamentations 2:15; by which is meant the church under the Gospel dispensation, Hebrews 12:22; which, as in Gospel order, is exceeding beautiful; and as its members are adorned with the graces of the Spirit, by which they are all glorious within; and especially as they are clothed with the righteousness of Christ, and so are perfectly comely through the comeliness he hath put upon them and here it is that Christ, who is the great God, and our Saviour, shines forth upon his people, grants his gracious presence, and manifests himself in his ordinances, to their great joy and pleasure.

p הומיע "emicabit", Tigurine version; "vel effulgebit", Vatablus; "illucescet", Amama, Grotius. q So De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Out of Zion - The place where God was worshipped, and where he dwelt. Compare the notes at Isaiah 2:3.

The perfection of beauty - See the notes at Psalms 48:2.

God hath shined - Has shined forth, or has caused light and splendor to appear. Compare Deuteronomy 33:2; Psalms 80:2; Psalms 94:1 (see the margin) The meaning here is, that the great principles which are to determine the destiny of mankind in the final judgment are those which proceed from Zion; or, those which are taught in the religion of Zion; they are those which are inculcated through the church of God. God has there made known his law; he has stated the principles on which he governs, and on which he will judge the world.


 
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