Psalm 48

¹A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, In the city of our God—His holy hill.

²Beautiful for elevation, A joy of all the land, is Mount Zion, The sides of the north, the city of a great king.

³God in her high places is known for a tower.

⁴For, lo, the kings met, they passed by together,

⁵They have seen—so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.

⁶Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

⁷By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.

⁸As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her—to the age. Selah.

⁹We have thought, O God, of Thy kindness, In the midst of Thy temple,

¹⁰As is Thy name, O God, so is Thy praise, Over the ends of the earth, Righteousness hath filled Thy right hand.

¹¹Rejoice doth Mount Zion, The daughters of Judah are joyful, For the sake of Thy judgments.

¹²Compass Zion, and go round her, count her towers,

¹³Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

¹⁴That this God is our God—To the age and for ever, He—he doth lead us over death!

Psalm 49