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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)

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"