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Psalms 48:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 48:14: The reason or consequence in “For this God is our God for ever and ever” supports the surrounding claim in “Zion praised and walked around.”
Read It With
- Psalms 48:1–14
Read Psalms 48:14 with 48:1–14. Read alone, “For this God is our God for ever and ever” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 48:1–14, the communal voice carries the movement “Zion praised and walked around” as part of “Zion praised and walked around.” Its zion-song form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 48:1–14 opens Psalm 48 with “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain…” and establishes the communal voice and “Zion praised and walked around” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 48:14 supplies a reason or consequence through “For this God is our God for ever and ever” and must be read with the claim it supports.
What Remains True
In “Zion praised and walked around,” Psalm 48:14 supplies a reason or consequence through “For this God is our God for ever and ever” and must be read with the claim it supports. The resulting truth stays bounded by this movement: Shared worship, memory, and journey can orient a community toward God while never excusing territorial violence, coercion, or unsafe belonging. The local movement is “Zion praised and walked around.” The unit's reviewed limit is: Jerusalem's liturgical symbolism belongs to Israel's Scriptures and does not grant a blank check for modern territorial claims or violence.
How It Can Shape Life
- Within “Zion praised and walked around,” Psalm 48:14 supplies a reason or consequence through “For this God is our God for ever and ever” and must be read with the claim it supports. A proportionate response is this: Use “For this God is our God for ever and ever” to strengthen truthful, safe belonging; do not demand unity, travel, reconciliation, or participation at the expense of protection.
Continue in Context
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Read Psalms 48:1–14 — Zion praised and walked aroundSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 48:1–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 48:1–14
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Biblical Studies Press
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Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 48:1–14.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 48 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 48:1–14
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