Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Psalm 48:2 in English Standard Version "beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King." Ps 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. La 2:15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” Eze 20:6 On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands. Mt 5:35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.