1 PSALM 48 The Beauty and Glory of Zion. A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the L, and greatly to be praised,In the city of our God, His holy mountain.
2 Fairandbeautiful in elevation, the joy of all the earth,Is Mount Zion [the City of David] in the far north,The city of the great King.
3 God, in her palaces,Has made Himself known as a stronghold.
4 For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,They [came and] passed by together.
5 They saw it, then they were amazed;They were stricken with terror, they fled in alarm.
6 Panic seized them there,And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.
7 With the east windYou shattered the ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, so have we seenIn the city of the Lof hosts, in the city of our God:God will establish her forever. Selah.
9 We have thought of Your lovingkindness, O God,In the midst of Your temple.
10 As is Your name, O God,So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;Your right hand is full of righteousness (rightness, justice).
11 Let Mount Zion be glad,Let the daughters of Judah rejoiceBecause of Your [righteous] judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, go all around her;Count her towers,
13 Consider her ramparts,Go through her palaces,That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].
14 For this is God,Our God forever and ever;He will be our guide even until death.