Psalm 48

New King James Version

The Glory of God in Zion

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

48 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the ^(A)city of our God,
In His holy mountain.
²^(B)Beautiful in ^[a]elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.
³God is in her palaces;
He is known as her refuge.

⁴For behold, ^(C)the kings assembled,
They passed by together.
⁵They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
⁶Fear ^(D)took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
⁷As when You break the ^(E)ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.

⁸As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will ^(F)establish it forever. Selah

⁹We have thought, O God, on ^(G)Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.
¹⁰According to ^(H)Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of Your judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;
¹³Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may ^(I)tell it to the generation following.
¹⁴For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
^(J)He will be our guide
^[b]Even to death.

Footnotes

Psalm 48:2 height
Psalm 48:14 So with MT, Syr.; LXX, Vg. Forever

Zechariah 2

New King James Version

Vision of the Measuring Line

2 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, ^(A)a man with a measuring line in his hand. ²So I said, “Where are you going?”

And he said to me, ^(B)“To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

³And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, ⁴who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying: ^(C)‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. ⁵For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be ^(D)a wall of fire all around her, ^(E)and I will be the glory in her midst.’ ”

Future Joy of Zion and Many Nations

⁶“Up, up! Flee ^(F)from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have ^(G)spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord. ⁷“Up, Zion! ^(H)Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”

⁸For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who ^(I)touches you touches the ^[a]apple of His eye. ⁹For surely I will ^(J)shake My hand against them, and they shall become ^[b]spoil for their servants. Then ^(K)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.

¹⁰^(L)“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I ^(M)will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. ¹¹^(N)“Many nations shall be joined to the Lord ^(O)in that day, and they shall become ^(P)My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then ^(Q)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. ¹²And the Lord will ^(R)take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. ¹³^(S)Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused ^(T)from His holy habitation!”