Psalm 48

Psalm 48

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

¹Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

In the ^acity of our God,

In His holy mountain.

^2bBeautiful in ¹elevation,

The joy of the whole earth,

Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,

The city of the great King.

³God is in her palaces;

He is known as her refuge.

⁴For behold, ^cthe kings assembled,

They passed by together.

⁵They saw it, and so they marveled;

They were troubled, they hastened away.

⁶Fear ^dtook hold of them there,

And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

⁷As when You break the ^eships of Tarshish

With an east wind.

⁸As we have heard,

So we have seen

In the city of the Lord of hosts,

In the city of our God:

God will ^festablish it forever.

Selah

⁹We have thought, O God, on ^gYour lovingkindness,

In the midst of Your temple.

¹⁰According to ^hYour name, O God,

So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;

Your right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Let Mount Zion rejoice,

Let the daughters of Judah be glad,

Because of Your judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion,

And go all around her.

Count her towers;

¹³Mark well her bulwarks;

Consider her palaces;

That you may ⁱtell it to the generation following.

¹⁴For this is God,

Our God forever and ever;

^jHe will be our guide

²Even to death.