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2 \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.
3 \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.
4 \48:3\God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
5 \48:4\For lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
6 \48:5\They saw it, and so they wondered; they were troubled, and hasted away.
7 \48:6\Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
8 \48:7\Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
9 \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.
10 \48:9\We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
11 \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.
12 \48:11\Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
13 \48:12\Walk about Zion, and go round her: number her towers.
14 \48:13\Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
15 \48:14\For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even to death.