en_tn_condensed/psa/048/001.md

# General Information:

This psalm is a song about Jerusalem being God's dwelling place. Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])

# A song; a psalm of the sons of Korah

This is a superscription that tells about the psalm. Some scholars say that this is part of the scripture and some say that it is not. (See "What are Superscriptions in Psalms" in [Introduction to Psalms](../front/intro.md).)

# greatly to be praised

This can be stated in active from. Alternate translation: "people are to praise him greatly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])

# the city of our God on his holy mountain

This is a reference to Jerusalem, which was built on Mount Zion.

# the city of our God

Possible meanings are 1) "the city where our God lives" or 2) "the city that belongs to our God"