Psalm 48:3
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3 fairest of heights,
the joy of all the earth,(A)
Mount Zion, the heights of Zaphon,[a](B)
the city of the great king.
Footnotes
- 48:3 The heights of Zaphon: the mountain abode of the Canaanite storm-god Baal in comparable texts. To speak of Zion as if it were Zaphon was to claim for Israel’s God what Canaanites claimed for Baal. Though topographically speaking Zion is only a hill, viewed religiously it towers over other mountains as the home of the supreme God (cf. Ps 68:16–17).
Psalm 50:12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you,
for mine is the world and all that fills it.(A)
Jeremiah 18:16
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16 Their land shall be made a waste,
an object of endless hissing:[a]
All passersby will be horrified,
shaking their heads.(A)
Footnotes
- 18:16 Hissing: in some ancient Near Eastern cultures hissing was not only a sign of derision but a magical means of keeping demons away; people hissed in order to ward off danger, like whistling in a cemetery.
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