| 48:1 |
A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness. |
| 48:2 |
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole  earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great  King. |
| 48:3 |
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. |
| 48:4 |
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. |
| 48:5 |
They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away. |
| 48:6 |
Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail. |
| 48:7 |
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. |
| 48:8 |
As 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. Selah. |
| 48:9 |
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. |
| 48:10 |
According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. |
| 48:11 |
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. |
| 48:12 |
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. |
| 48:13 |
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the  generation following. |
| 48:14 |
For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto  Absolut death. |