the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Psalms 48:9
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God, within your temple,we contemplate your faithful love.
We have thought about your lovingkindness, God, In the midst of your temple.
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
God, we come into your Temple to think about your love.
We reflect on your loyal love, O God, within your temple.
We have thought of Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.
We have thought over Your goodness, God, In the midst of Your temple.
We have thought about your lovingkindness, God, In the midst of your temple.
We waite for thy louing kindnes, O God, in the middes of thy Temple.
We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God,In the midst of Your temple.
Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
Our God, here in your temple we think about your love.
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)
We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.
God, in your Temple we remember your loving kindness.
We have trusted upon thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Inside your Temple, O God, we think of your constant love.
We have pondered your loyal love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of Your temple.
Sela. We wayte for thy louynge kyndnesse (o God) in the myddest of thy temple.
We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple.
Our thoughts were of your mercy, O God, while we were in your Temple.
As we have heard, so have we seen {N}God establish it for ever. Selah
Wee haue thought of thy louing kindnesse, O God, in the middest of thy Temple.
O Lorde we haue wayted: for thy louyng kindnesse in the myddest of thy temple.
We have thought of thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy people.
We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
God, we han resseyued thi mercy; in the myddis of thi temple.
We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness, In the midst of Your temple.
O God, we meditate on your unfailing love as we worship in your Temple.
O God, we have thought about Your loving-kindness within Your holy house.
We ponder your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
We have thought, O God, upon thy lovingkindness, In the midst of thy temple:
(47-10) We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
We have thought, O God, of Thy kindness, In the midst of Thy temple,
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.
We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.
Contextual Overview
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
And make savory food for me, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat. That my soul may bless you before I die.
And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your slave.
And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
and said to me, Look, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.
And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.
And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face: and, look, God has let me see your seed also.
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.
And he blessed them that day, saying, In you [Joseph] will Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
And Israel said to Joseph, Look, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again 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.
