Psalm 48

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Psalm 48

Zion Exalted

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹The Lord is great and highly praised
in the city of our God.^(A)
His holy mountain, ²rising splendidly,
is the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion—the summit of Zaphon—
is the city of the great King.^(B)
³God is known as a stronghold
in its citadels.^(C)

⁴Look! The kings assembled;
they advanced together.^(D)
⁵They looked and froze with fear;
they fled in terror.^(E)
⁶Trembling seized them there,
agony like that of a woman in labor,^(F)
⁷as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish
with the east wind.^(G)

⁸Just as we heard, so we have seen
in the city of the Lord of Armies,
in the city of our God;
God will establish it forever.^(H)Selah

⁹God, within your temple,
we contemplate your faithful love.^(I)
¹⁰Like your name, God, so your praise
reaches to the ends of the earth;^(J)
your right hand is filled with justice.^(K)
¹¹Mount Zion is glad.
Judah’s villages^[a] rejoice
because of your judgments.^(L)

¹²Go around Zion, encircle it;
count its towers,
¹³note its ramparts; tour its citadels
so that you can tell a future generation:^(M)
¹⁴“This God, our God forever and ever—
he will always lead us.”^[b]^(N)

Footnotes

48:11 Lit daughters
48:14 Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read over death

Proverbs 18:21-22

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²¹Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.^(A)

²²A man who finds a wife finds a good thing^(B)
and obtains favor from the Lord.^(C)

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Mark 16:1-8

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Resurrection Morning

16 When^(A) the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene,^(B) Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they could go and anoint him. ²Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week,^(C) they went to the tomb^(D) at sunrise. ³They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance to the tomb for us?” ⁴Looking up, they noticed that the stone—which was very large—had been rolled away.

⁵When^(E) they entered the tomb,^(F) they saw a young man^(G) dressed^(H) in a white^(I) robe sitting on the right side; they were alarmed. ⁶“Don’t be alarmed,” he told them. “You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth,^(J) who was crucified. He has risen!^(K) He is not here. See the place where they put him. ⁷But go, tell his disciples and Peter,^(L) ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee;^(M) you will see him there just as he told you.’”

⁸They went out and ran from the tomb,^(N) because trembling and astonishment overwhelmed them. And they said nothing to anyone,^(O) since they were afraid.

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