Psalms 48:1-10

¹“A song and psalm by the sons of Korach.” (48:2) Great is the Lord, and highly praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

²(48:3) A beautiful district, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, the farthest north, the city of the great King.

³(48:4) God is become known in her palaces as a defence.

⁴(48:5) For, lo, the kings were assembled, they are passed away together.

⁵(48:6) They indeed saw—and so they were astonished; they were terrified, they were confounded.

⁶(48:7) Trembling seized on them there, pain, as on a woman in travail.

⁷(48:8) With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tharshish.

⁸(48:9) 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 for ever. Selah.

⁹(48:10) We have reflected on thy kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰(48:11) As thy name is, O God, so is thy praise over the ends of the earth: of righteousness is thy right hand full.