    Psalm 48

1    Great is the Lord and highly to be praised,  ♦
in the city of our God.
2    His holy mountain is fair and lifted high,  ♦
the joy of all the earth.
3    On Mount Zion, the divine dwelling place,  ♦
stands the city of the great king.
4    In her palaces God has shown himself  ♦
to be a sure refuge.
5    For behold, the kings of the earth assembled  ♦
and swept forward together.
6  They saw, and were dumbfounded;  ♦
dismayed, they fled in terror.
7    Trembling seized them there;
they writhed like a woman in labour,  ♦
as when the east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.
8    As we had heard, so have we seen
in the city of the Lord of hosts, the city of our God:  ♦
God has established her for ever.
9    We have waited on your loving-kindness, O God,  ♦
in the midst of your temple.
10  As with your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth;  ♦
your right hand is full of justice.
11  Let Mount Zion rejoice and the daughters of Judah be glad,  ♦
because of your judgements, O Lord.
12  Walk about Zion and go round about her;
count all her towers;  ♦
consider well her bulwarks; pass through her citadels,
13  That you may tell those who come after
that such is our God for ever and ever.  ♦
It is he that shall be our guide for evermore.
