48-1: |
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 death. |