Psalms 48:1-13

¹The song of psalm, of the sons of Korah. The Lord is great, and worthy to be praised full much; in the city of our God, in the holy hill of him.

²It is founded in the full out joying of all earth; the hill of Zion, the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

³God shall be known in the houses thereof; when he shall take it.

⁴For lo! the kings of earth were gathered together; they came into one place.

⁵They seeing, so wondered; they were troubled, they were moved altogether,

⁶trembling took them. There sorrows, as of a woman travailing of child;

⁷in a great spirit thou shalt all-break the ships of Tarshish.

⁸As we heard, so we saw, in the city of the Lord of virtues, in the city of our God; God hath founded that city without end.

⁹God, we have received thy mercy; in the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰After thy name, God, so thy praising is spread abroad into the ends of earth; thy right hand is full of rightwiseness.

¹¹The hill of Zion be glad, and the daughters of Judah be fully joyful or full out joy; for thy dooms, Lord.

¹²Compass ye Zion, and embrace ye it; tell ye in the towers thereof.

¹³Set ye your hearts in the virtue of him; and part ye the houses of him, that ye tell out in another generation.