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 1 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.2
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 3 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.4