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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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.

I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

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I call out to the Lord,(A)
    and he answers me from his holy mountain.(B)

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12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

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12 For he who avenges blood(A) remembers;
    he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.(B)

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Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?

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Who may ascend the mountain(A) of the Lord?
    Who may stand in his holy place?(B)

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A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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A father to the fatherless,(A) a defender of widows,(B)
    is God in his holy dwelling.(C)

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