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The psalm praises Jerusalem's beauty, recalls enemy kings fleeing in terror, meditates on God's lovingkindness in the temple, and tells the next generation to walk around Zion and remember.
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Psalms 48
The psalm praises Jerusalem's beauty, recalls enemy kings fleeing in terror, meditates on God's lovingkindness in the temple, and tells the next generation to walk around Zion and remember.
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1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in…2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is…3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled,…6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of…7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.8As we have heard, so have we seen in the…9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the…10According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise…11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be…12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the…13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye…14For this God is our God for ever and ever:…