Psalm 48: Great Is the Lord in Zion
A hymn celebrating Mount Zion as the city of the great King.
Psalm 48 praises Zion as 'beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth,' known in her palaces as a refuge. It describes kings who assembled against the city, saw it, and 'hasted away' in fear, much like the deliverance recalled in Psalms 47.
A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.
\\48:1\\A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. 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 wondered; 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 loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
\\48:10\\According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise to 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 her: number her towers.
\\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 to death.