Psalm 48

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹ The Lord is great. He deserves to be praised
    in the city of our God, on his holy mountain.
² His mountain is lofty and beautiful, the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion, the northern mountain, is the city of the Great King.
³ God is in her citadels.
He is famous as her fortress.

⁴ Look! See! The kings came together.
They advanced together.
⁵ They saw. Yes, they were amazed.
They were terrified. They were put to flight.
⁶ Trembling seized them there,
pain like a woman giving birth.
⁷ You shattered them with an east wind, like ships of Tarshish.

⁸ What we have heard, we now have also seen:
    In the city of the Lord of Armies,
    in the city of our God, Interlude
    God establishes her forever.
⁹ Inside your temple, O God, we meditate on your mercy.
¹⁰ Your praise, O God, reaches to the ends of the earth,
just as your fame does.
Righteousness fills your right hand.
¹¹ Mount Zion rejoices.
The daughters of Judah^[a] celebrate because of your judgments.
¹² Go around Zion. Yes, go all the way around her.
Count her towers. ¹³ Consider her rampart.^[b]
View her citadels, so that you may tell the next generation about them.
¹⁴ For this God is our God forever and ever.
He will guide us beyond death.^[c]