Psalms 48
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Psalms

A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Broken Bondage

1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.+ 2Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.+ 3God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.+ 4For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.+ 5They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.+ 6Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.+ 7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.+ 8As 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+ 9Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.+ 10Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.+ 11Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.+ 12March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,+ 13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.+ 14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.+
Footnotes (4)
  1. a 48:2 Or in the far north; the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites was Zaphon
  2. b 48:7 Or a fleet of trading ships
  3. c 48:11 Or the villages
  4. d 48:14 Or He will guide us beyond death

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Places

Mount ZionTarshish
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