PSALM 48

¹Song, a psalm for the Korahites.

    ²Great is the LORD and highly praised

          in our God’s town, His holy mountain.

    ³Lovely in heights, all the earth’s joy,

          Mount Zion, far end of Zaphon,

              the great King’s city.

    ⁴God in its bastions

          is famed as a fortress.

    ⁵For, look, the kings have conspired,

          passed onward one and all.

    ⁶It is they who have seen and so been astounded,

          were panicked, dismayed.

    ⁷Shuddering seized them there,

          pangs like a woman in labor.

    ⁸With the east wind

          You smashed the ships of Tarshish.

    ⁹As we heard, so we see

          in the town of the LORD of Armies, in the town of our God.

              May God make it stand firm forever!

selah

    ¹⁰We witnessed, O God, Your kindness

          in the midst of Your temple.

    ¹¹Like Your name, O God, so Your praise—

          to the ends of the earth.

              With justice Your right hand is full.

    ¹²Let Mount Zion rejoice,

          let Judah’s townlets exult

              because of Your judgments.

    ¹³Go around Zion, encircle it.

          Count its towers.

    ¹⁴Set your mind to its ramparts,

          scale its bastions

              to recount to the last generation.

    ¹⁵For this is God, our God, forevermore.

          He will lead us forever.