Psalm 48

48:1: ¶ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
48:2: Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
48:3: God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
48:4: For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
48:5: They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
48:6: Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
48:7: Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
48:8: As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
48:9: We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
48:10: According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
48:11: Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
48:12: Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
48:13: Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
48:14: For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.