Psalms 48
Broken Bondage
A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.2God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
3For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.
4They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.
5Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
6With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
7As 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
8Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
9Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
10Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
11March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
12consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
13For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.