Psalms 48

Psalms 48:4

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

The heathen kings, especially Sennacherib and his mighty host and assistants, came up against Jerusalem, with menaces of utter destruction; but they staid not long before those walls, ere they were sent away with shame and slaughter.

Psalms 48:7

Thou brethest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

As a navy by sea is dispersed by a furious east wind, so didst thou, O Lord, scatter and discomfit those mighty enemies, that came up against Jerusalem.

Psalms 48:8

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts.

According to the relation of thy former deliverances of thy people, reported to us by our forefathers, so have our eyes been witnesses of thy present rescue of our city and nation. XLVIII. 12, 13. Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces. Look well, O ye beholders, upon the many and goodly towers of Jerusalem, upon her strong fortifications, upon her fair palaces; and, as thereby you shall be excited to praise God for the deliverance of so noble and beautiful a pile, so take occasion thereby to think of the splendour and glory of that heavenly Jerusalem which is above.