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Psalms 48

1 God majestic, praise abounds in our God-city! His sacred mountain,

1 Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.

2 breathtaking in its heights - earth's joy. Zion Mountain looms in the North, city of the world-King.

2 Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.

3 God in his citadel peaks impregnable.

3 God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress.

4 The kings got together, they united and came.

4 When the kings joined forces, when they advanced together,

5 They took one look and shook their heads, they scattered and ran away.

5 they saw her and were astounded; they fled in terror.

6 They doubled up in pain like a woman having a baby.

6 Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.

7 You smashed the ships of Tarshish with a storm out of the East.

7 You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind.

8 We heard about it, then we saw it with our eyes - In God's city of angel armies, in the city our God Set on firm foundations, firm forever.

8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.

9 We pondered your love-in-action, God, waiting in your temple:

9 Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.

10 Your name, God, evokes a train of Hallelujahs wherever It is spoken, near and far; your arms are heaped with goodness-in-action.

10 Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.

11 Be glad, Zion Mountain; Dance, Judah's daughters! He does what he said he'd do!

11 Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.

12 Circle Zion, take her measure, count her fortress peaks,

12 Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,

13 Gaze long at her sloping bulwark, climb her citadel heights - Then you can tell the next generation detail by detail the story of God,

13 consider well her ramparts, view her citadels, that you may tell of them to the next generation.

14 Our God forever, who guides us till the end of time.

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.