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