48 Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise
in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.^[b]
2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
is Mount Zion,^[c] in the far north,^[d]
the city of the great king.
³ God is in her citadels;
he is known as a high stronghold.
⁴ For see, the kings assembled;^[e]
they advanced together.
⁵ They themselves saw^[f] it, so they were astonished.
They were terrified; they ran off.
⁶ Trembling seized them there—
pain as of a woman in labor.
⁷ With an east wind
you shatter^[g] the ships of Tarshish.^[h]
8 As we have heard, so we have seen
in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God.
God will establish her forever. Selah
⁹ We have pondered your loyal love, O God,
in the midst of your temple.
¹⁰ As is your name, O God, so is your praise
to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹ Let Mount Zion^[i] rejoice;
let the daughters of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments.
¹² Walk about Zion and circle it;
count her towers.
¹³ Consider well^[j] her ramparts.
Go through her citadels
so that you can tell the next generation
¹⁴ that this is God, our God forever and ever.
He himself^[k] will guide us until death.