Psalm 48

¹Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

²Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

³God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

⁴For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.

⁵They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.

⁶Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

⁷With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

⁸As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah

⁹Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

¹⁰Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

¹²March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

¹³consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

¹⁴For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.