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2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined{H8689)}.
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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)It is probable that Asaph was not only the chief musician, who was to put a tune to this psalm, but that he was himself the penman of it; for we read that in Hezekiah’s time they praised God in the words of David and of Asaph the seer , 2 Chron. 29:30. Here is, I. The court called, in the name of the King of kings (Ps. 50:2): The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken —El, Elohim, Jehovah, the God…
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