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

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

9 We have thought, O God, on (G)Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.
10 According to (H)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 (I)tell it to the generation following.
14 For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
(J)He will be our guide
[b]Even to death.

#### Footnotes

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

#### Cross references

1. Psalm 48:1 : Ps. 46:4; 87:3; Matt. 5:35
2. Psalm 48:2 : Ps. 50:2
3. Psalm 48:4 : 2 Sam. 10:6, 14
4. Psalm 48:6 : Ex. 15:15
5. Psalm 48:7 : 1 Kin. 10:22; Ezek. 27:25
6. Psalm 48:8 : [Ps. 87:5; Is. 2:2]; Mic. 4:1
7. Psalm 48:9 : Ps. 26:3
8. Psalm 48:10 : [Deut. 28:58]; Josh. 7:9; Mal. 1:11
9. Psalm 48:13 : [Ps. 78:5–7]
10. Psalm 48:14 : Is. 58:11

New King James Version (NKJV)

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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