Psalm 48, side by side

¹A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

¹Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

²Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

²Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

³God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

⁴For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.

⁴For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

⁵They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.

⁵They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

⁶Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

⁶Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

⁷With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

⁷Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

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

⁸As 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.

⁹Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

⁹We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

¹⁰According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

¹¹Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

¹²March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

¹³consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

¹³Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

¹⁴For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.

¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.