Psalms 48:1-9

¹A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, In the city of our God — His holy hill.

²Beautiful for elevation, A joy of all the land, is Mount Zion, The sides of the north, the city of a great king.

³God in her high places is known for a tower.

⁴For, lo, the kings met, they passed by together,

⁵They have seen — so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.

⁶Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

⁷By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.

⁸As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her — to the age. Selah.

⁹We have thought, O God, of Thy kindness, In the midst of Thy temple,