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