Psalms 48 The Beauty and Privileges of Zion

 Psalms 48

The Beauty and Privileges of Zion

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

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.

3 God is known in her palaces as a refuge.

4 For, lo, the kings gathered together; they passed by together.

5 They saw him, and were amazed; they were terrified, and fled in haste.

6 Trembling seized them there, and pains as of a woman in labor.

7 You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

8 As we have heard, so have we seen it in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever.

9 We have remembered, O God, your lovingkindness in the midst of your temple.

10 As your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth; your right hand is full of righteousness.

11 Let Mount Zion rejoice; let the daughters of Judah be glad because of your judgments.

12 Go around Zion; surround her; count her towers;

13 Consider her ramparts; consider her palaces, that you may tell them to the next generation.

14 For this God is our God forever; he will be our guide even to death.