The City of Our God - Psalm 46-50

God Is Our Refuge and Strength

[1] For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. 

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. 

[Psa 46:1 LSB]

God Is King of All the Earth

[1] For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. 

O clap your hands, all peoples; Make a loud shout to God with the sound of a shout of joy. 

[Psa 47:1 LSB]

[9] The nobles of the peoples have assembled themselves [with] the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted. 

[Psa 47:9 LSB]

The City of Our God

[1] A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. 

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain. 

[Psa 48:1 LSB]

[22] But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

[23] to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of [the] righteous made perfect,

[24] and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than [the blood] of Abel.

[Heb 12:22-24 LSB]

[2] And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
[Rev 21:2 LSB]

[9] We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.
[Psa 48:9 LSB]

Why Should I Fear in Days of Evil?

[20] Man in [his] honor, but [who] does not understand, Is like the animals that perish. 

[Psa 49:20 LSB]

[18] I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, "God is testing them in order for them to see that they are but beasts." 

[19] For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same fate for [each of] them. As one dies so dies the other, and they all have the same breath. So there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. 

[Ecc 3:18-19 LSB]

God Himself Is Judge

[23] The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!" 

[Psa 50:23 ESV]