| Chapter 48 |
1 | A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
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2 | Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
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3 | God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
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4 | For lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
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5 | They saw it, and so they wondered; they were troubled, and hasted away.
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6 | Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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7 | Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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8 | As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
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9 | We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
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10 | According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise to the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
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11 | Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
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12 | Walk about Zion, and go round her: number her towers.
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13 | Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
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14 | For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even to death.
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