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Psalm 48 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:2 - Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon[fn] is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:3 - God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:4 - When the kings joined forces, when they advanced together,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:5 - they saw her and were astounded; they fled in terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:6 - Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:7 - You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:8 - As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:9 - Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:10 - Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:11 - Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:12 - Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:13 - consider well her ramparts, view her citadels, that you may tell of them to the next generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:14 - For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.
NIV Footnotes
In Hebrew texts 48:1-14 is numbered 48:2-15.
Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.
The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
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