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Zion, the City of Our God

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
   in the city of our God!
His holy mountain, ² beautiful in elevation,
   is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
   the city of the great King.
³ Within her citadels God
   has made himself known as a fortress.

⁴ For behold, the kings assembled;
they came on together.
⁵ As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
they were in panic; they took to flight.
⁶ Trembling took hold of them there,
anguish as of a woman in labor.
⁷ By the east wind you shattered
the ships of Tarshish.
⁸ As we have heard, so have we seen
in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God,
which God will establish forever. Selah

⁹ We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,
in the midst of your temple.
¹⁰ As your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
¹¹     Let Mount Zion be glad!
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments!

¹² Walk about Zion, go around her,
number her towers,
¹³ consider well her ramparts,
go through her citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
¹⁴     that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
He will guide us forever.^[a]

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 48:14 Septuagint; another reading is (compare Jerome, Syriac) He will guide us beyond death

Cross references:

1. Psalm 48:1 : Ps. 42, title; 46, title
2. Psalm 48:1 : Ps. 96:4; 145:3
3. Psalm 48:1 : See Ps. 46:4
4. Psalm 48:1 : Ps. 2:6; 87:1; Zech. 8:3; [Isa. 2:3; Mic. 4:1]
5. Psalm 48:2 : See Ps. 50:2
6. Psalm 48:2 : Lam. 2:15; [Ezek. 20:6]
7. Psalm 48:2 : Matt. 5:35
8. Psalm 48:4 : See 2 Sam. 10:6-19
9. Psalm 48:6 : [Ex. 15:15]
10. Psalm 48:6 : Isa. 13:8; Hos. 13:13
11. Psalm 48:7 : Jer. 18:17
12. Psalm 48:7 : 1 Kgs. 22:48; Ezek. 27:26
13. Psalm 48:7 : 1 Kgs. 10:22
14. Psalm 48:8 : [See ver. 1 above]; See Ps. 46:4
15. Psalm 48:8 : Ps. 87:5; Isa. 2:2; Mic. 4:1
16. Psalm 48:9 : Ps. 26:3; 40:10
17. Psalm 48:10 : Ps. 113:3; [Ex. 34:5, 6; Deut. 28:58; Mal. 1:11, 14]
18. Psalm 48:10 : See Ps. 22:27
19. Psalm 48:11 : Ps. 97:8
20. Psalm 48:11 : Ps. 97:8
21. Psalm 48:13 : Ps. 122:7
22. Psalm 48:13 : [Ps. 78:4-6]
23. Psalm 48:14 : Ps. 23:3, 4