Psalm 47-48

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ God has gone up with a shout,
    the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
⁶ Sing praises to God, sing praises;
    sing praises to our King, sing praises.
⁷ For God is the king of all the earth;
    sing praises with a psalm.^[a]

⁸ God is king over the nations;
    God sits on his holy throne.
⁹ The princes of the peoples gather
    as the people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
    he is highly exalted.

⁴ Then the kings assembled,
    they came on together.
⁵ As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
    they were in panic, they took to flight;
⁶ trembling took hold of them there,
    pains as of a woman in labor,
⁷ as when an east wind shatters
    the ships of Tarshish.
⁸ As we have heard, so have we seen
    in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God,
    which God establishes forever.Selah

⁹ We ponder your steadfast love, O God,
    in the midst of your temple.
¹⁰ Your name, O God, like your praise,
    reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with victory.
¹¹     Let Mount Zion be glad,
let the towns^[b] of Judah rejoice
    because of your judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion, go all around it,
    count its towers,
¹³ consider well its ramparts;
    go through its citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
¹⁴     that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
    He will be our guide forever.