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Great is the Lord and worthy of high praise
    in the city of our God.
His holy mountain,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 48:2 Holy mountain: see note on Ps 2:6.

Beautiful(A) in its loftiness,
    the joy of the whole earth,
like the heights of Zaphon[a](B) is Mount Zion,(C)
    the city of the Great King.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 48:2 Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

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

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(A)beautiful in elevation,
    is (B)the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
    (C)the city of the great King.

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