Psalm 48

¹Great is the LORD, and highly 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, onthe 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 the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever.

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: tell the towers thereof.

¹³Mark ye welt 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 evenunto death.