Psalms 48

Zion Exalted

¹The Lord is great and highly praised

in the city of our God.

His holy mountain,

²rising splendidly,

is the joy of the whole earth.

Mount Zion on the slopes of the north

is the city of the great King.

³God is known as a stronghold

in its citadels.

⁴Look! The kings assembled;

they advanced together.

⁵They looked and froze with fear;

they fled in terror.

⁶Trembling seized them there,

agony like that of a woman in labor,

⁷as You wrecked the ships of Tarshish

with the east wind.

⁸Just as we heard, so we have seen

in the city of Yahweh of Hosts,

in the city of our God;

God will establish it forever. Selah

⁹God, within Your temple,

we contemplate Your faithful love.

¹⁰Your name, God, like Your praise,

reaches to the ends of the earth;

Your right hand is filled with justice.

¹¹Mount Zion is glad.

The towns of Judah rejoice

because of Your judgments.

¹²Go around Zion, encircle it;

count its towers,

¹³note its ramparts; tour its citadels

so that you can tell a future generation:

¹⁴“This God, our God forever and ever —

He will always lead us.”