^48:1 Great is Jehovah and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. ^48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

    ^48:3 God has made himself known in her palaces for a refuge. ^48:4 Because behold, the kings assembled themselves. They passed by together.

    ^48:5 They saw it, then were they amazed. They were dismayed, they hastened away. ^48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in childbirth.

    ^48:7 You break the ships of Tarshish with the east wind. ^48:8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God, God will establish it everlasting. Selah.

    ^48:9 We have thought on your loving kindness, O God, in the midst of your temple. ^48:10 As is your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

    ^48:11 Let Mount Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

    ^48:12 Walk about Zion and go all around her. Number the towers of it, ^48:13 mark well her ramparts, consider her palaces, that you^* may tell it to the generation following. ^48:14 Because this God is our God everlasting and forever. He will be our guide even to death.