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