# Psalm 48 (New King James Version)
The Glory of God in Zion

##### Chapter 48
###### 1 Great _is_ the Lord, and greatly to be praised  
In the city of our God,  
_In_ His holy mountain.  

###### 2 Beautiful in elevation,  
The joy of the whole earth,  
_Is_ Mount Zion _on_ the sides of the north,  
The city of the great King.  

###### 3 God _is_ in her palaces;  
He is known as her refuge.

###### 4 For behold, the kings assembled,  
They passed by together.  

###### 5 They saw _it, and_ so they marveled;  
They were troubled, they hastened away.  

###### 6 Fear took hold of them there,  
_And_ pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,  

###### 7 _As when_ You break the ships of Tarshish  
With an east wind.

###### 8 As we have heard,  
So we have seen  
In the city of the Lord of hosts,  
In the city of our God:  
God will establish it forever. _Selah_

###### 9 We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness,  
In the midst of Your temple.  

###### 10 According to 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 rejoice,  
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,  
Because of Your judgments.

###### 12 Walk about Zion,  
And go all around her.  
Count her towers;  

###### 13 Mark well her bulwarks;  
Consider her palaces;  
That you may tell _it_ to the generation following.  

###### 14 For this _is_ God,  
Our God forever and ever;  
He will be our guide  
_Even_ to death.