48:1  Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised
In the city of our God,
In His holy mountain.

48:2  Beautiful in elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.

48:3  God is in her palaces;
He is known as her refuge.

48:4  For behold, the kings assembled,
They passed by together.

48:5  They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.

48:6  Fear took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

48:7  As when You break the ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.

48:8  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 it forever. Selah

48:9  We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.

48:10  According to Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.

48:11  Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of Your judgments.

48:12  Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;

48:13  Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may tell it to the generation following.

48:14  For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will be our guide
Even to death.