Psalm 48

Broken Bondage

A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain. ² Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon^a is Mount Zion, the city of the great King. ³ God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

⁴ For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together. ⁵ They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror. ⁶ Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor. ⁷ With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.^b

⁸ As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever.

Selah

⁹ Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion. ¹⁰ Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness. ¹¹ Mount Zion is glad, the daughters^c of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

¹² March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers, ¹³ consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation. ¹⁴ For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.^d