“Great Is the Lord”
Michael W. Smith & Deborah D. Smith
Psalm 48:1
Sing it. Nothing here is offered as a quotation, and every attribute it names of God is one the psalms affirm. It is a list of true things, not a verse set to music.✓ Every attribute it names of God is affirmed in Psalm 48 itself: holy, just, merciful, powerful, faithful, worthy of praise
⚠ Hymnals index it under Psalm 48:1 among other verses, but the writers named Psalm 145:3. The two share an opening clause and then separate, so do not read the song as a setting of Psalm 48
