­PSA 48:1  Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,

 in the mountain of his holiness.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 48:3  God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

 

­PSA 48:4  For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

 

­PSA 48:5  They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted

 away.

 

­PSA 48:6  Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

 

­PSA 48:7  Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 48:9  We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy

 temple.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 48:11  Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because

 of thy judgments.

 

­PSA 48:12  Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

 

­PSA 48:13  Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it

 to the generation following.

 

­PSA 48:14  For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even

 unto death.

 

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