Psalm 48

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Zion, the City of Our God

A Song. A Psalm of ^(A)the Sons of Korah.

48 ^(B)Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
    in ^(C)the city of our God!
His ^(D)holy mountain, ²^(E)beautiful in elevation,
    is ^(F)the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
    ^(G)the city of the great King.
³Within her citadels God
    has made himself known as a fortress.

⁴For behold, ^(H)the kings assembled;
    they came on together.
⁵As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
    they were in panic; they took to flight.
⁶^(I)Trembling took hold of them there,
    anguish ^(J)as of a woman in labor.
⁷By ^(K)the east wind you ^(L)shattered
    the ships of ^(M)Tarshish.
⁸As we have heard, so have we seen
    in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in ^(N)the city of our God,
    which God will ^(O)establish forever. Selah

⁹We have thought on your ^(P)steadfast love, O God,
    in the midst of your temple.
¹⁰As your ^(Q)name, O God,
    so your praise reaches to ^(R)the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
¹¹    Let Mount ^(S)Zion be glad!
Let ^(T)the daughters of Judah rejoice
    because of your judgments!

¹²Walk about Zion, go around her,
    number her towers,
¹³consider well her ^(U)ramparts,
    go through her citadels,
^(V)that you may tell the next generation
¹⁴    that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
    He will ^(W)guide us forever.^[a]

Footnotes

Psalm 48:14 Septuagint; another reading is (compare Jerome, Syriac) He will guide us beyond death

Ezekiel 11:14-25

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Israel's New Heart and Spirit

¹⁴And the word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁵^(A)“Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen,^[a] the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ^(B)‘Go far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.’ ¹⁶Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet ^(C)I have been a sanctuary to them for a while^[b] in the countries where they have gone.’ ¹⁷Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ^(D)I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, ^(E)and I will give you the land of Israel.’ ¹⁸And when they come there, ^(F)they will remove from it all its ^(G)detestable things and all its abominations. ¹⁹^(H)And I will give them one heart, and ^(I)a new spirit I will put within them. ^(J)I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh ^(K)and give them a heart of flesh, ²⁰^(L)that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. ^(M)And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. ²¹^(N)But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, ^(O)I will^[c] bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.”

²²^(P)Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, ^(Q)and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. ²³And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and ^(R)stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city. ²⁴^(S)And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me ^(T)in the vision by the Spirit of God ^(U)into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me. ²⁵And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 11:15 Hebrew the men of your redemption
Ezekiel 11:16 Or in small measure
Ezekiel 11:21 Hebrew To the heart of their detestable things and their abominations their heart goes; I will

1 Corinthians 2:12-16

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¹²Now ^(A)we have received not ^(B)the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. ¹³And we impart this ^(C)in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, ^(D)interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.^[a]

¹⁴The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(E)folly to him, and ^(F)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵The ^(G)spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ¹⁶^(H)“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But ^(I)we have the mind of Christ.