| 48:1
| Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in
the mountain of his holiness.
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| 48:2
| Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on
the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
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| 48:3
| God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
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| 48:4
| For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
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| 48:5
| They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
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| 48:6
| Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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| 48:7
| Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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| 48:8
| As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in
the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
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| 48:9
| We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy
temple.
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| 48:10
| According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the
earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
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| 48:11
| Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of
thy judgments.
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| 48:12
| Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
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| 48:13
| Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to
the generation following.
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| 48:14
| For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even
unto death.
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