Psalm 48

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

48 ¹Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised,

In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

²Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,

Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north,

The city of the great King.

³God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

⁴For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,

They passed by together.

⁵They saw it, then were they amazed;

They were dismayed, they hasted away.

⁶Trembling took hold of them there,

Pain, as of a woman in travail.

⁷With the east wind

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

⁸As we have heard, so have we seen

In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God:

God will establish it for ever.

Selah

⁹We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God,

In the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰As is thy name, O God,

So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:

Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Let mount Zion be glad,

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,

Because of thy judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her;

Number the towers thereof;

¹³Mark ye well her bulwarks;

Consider her palaces:

That ye may tell it to the generation following.

¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever:

He will be our guide even unto death.