Psalms 48:1-13

¹A song; a psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God on his holy mountain.

²Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³God has made himself known in her palaces as a refuge.

⁴For, see, the kings assembled themselves; they passed by together.

⁵They saw it, then they were amazed; they were dismayed, and they hurried away.

⁶Trembling took hold of them there, pain as when a woman is in labor.

⁷With the east wind you break the ships of Tarshish.

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

⁹We have thought about your covenant faithfulness, God, in the middle of your temple.

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

¹¹Let Mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your righteous decrees.

¹²Walk around Mount Zion, go round about her; count her towers,

¹³notice well her walls, and look at her palaces so that you may tell it to the next generation.