The Glory of God in Zion

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

48 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praisedIn the city of our God,In His holy mountain.² Beautiful in elevation,The joy of the whole earth,Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,The city of the great King.³ God is in her palaces;He is known as her refuge.

⁴ For behold, the kings assembled,They passed by together.⁵ They saw it, and so they marveled;They were troubled, they hastened away.⁶ Fear took hold of them there,And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,⁷ As when You break the ships of TarshishWith an east wind.

⁸ As we have heard,So we have seenIn the city of the Lord of hosts,In the city of our God:God will establish it forever. Selah

⁹ We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness,In the midst of Your temple.¹⁰ According to Your name, O God,So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;Your right hand is full of righteousness.¹¹ Let Mount Zion rejoice,Let the daughters of Judah be glad,Because of Your judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion,And go all around her.Count her towers;¹³ Mark well her bulwarks;Consider her palaces;That you may tell it to the generation following.¹⁴ For this is God,Our God forever and ever;He will be our guideEven to death.^[a]