Thi Thiên 48

Zion, the city of the great King

¹A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. ²The LORD is great and deserves all praise in the city of our God, on his holy mountain. ³Mount Zion rises in beauty, the delight of the whole earth; it is the true heights of Zaphon, the great King’s city.^{a 4}Within the city’s strongholds God has proved himself a high refuge. ⁵Look: the kings gathered their armies and marched on together. ⁶They looked, and were stunned; they panicked and ran. ⁷There they were seized with shaking, with pangs like a woman giving birth. ⁸With a wind from the east you wreck the ships of Tarshish. ⁹What we had heard, we have now seen with our own eyes in the city of the LORD of Armies, the city of our God: God will make it stand firm forever. Selah ¹⁰God, we have reflected on your loyal love here inside your temple. ¹¹Your praise, God, matches your name and spreads to the far ends of the earth; your right hand overflows with justice. ¹²Let Mount Zion be glad, and the towns of Judah celebrate, because you judge rightly. ¹³Make a circuit of Zion and walk all the way around; count up its towers, ¹⁴take careful note of its walls, walk through its strongholds, so that you can tell the generation to come ¹⁵that this is God, our God forever and always; he will be our guide until we die.^b