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# General Information:
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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/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# greatly to be praised
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This can be stated in active from. Alternate translation: "people are to praise him greatly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# the city of our God on his holy mountain
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This is a reference to Jerusalem, which was built on Mount Zion.
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# the city of our God
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Possible meanings are 1) "the city where our God lives" or 2) "the city that belongs to our God"
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