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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.)
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"