1(48) A Psalm of praise for the sons of Core on the second day of the week. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
2The city of the great King is well planted on the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, on the sides of the north.
3God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her.
4For, behold the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together.
5They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved.
6Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.
7You will break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.
8As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.
Psalms 47
Psalms 47:1-8