To the chief musician, a song and psalm for the sons of Korah.
1 GReat is Jehovah, and he is
to be praised greatly
within the city of our God,
in his mountain holy.
2 For situation beautiful,
the joy of the whole earth
mount Sion; the great Kings city
on the sides of the north.
3 God in her palaces is known
to be a refuge high.
4 For lo, the kings assembled were:
they past together by.
5 They saw, and so they marveled,
were troubled, fled for fear.
6 Trembling seiz’d on them there and pain
like her that child doth bare.
7 The navies that of Tarshish are
in pieces thou breakest:
ev’n with a very blast of wind
coming out of the east.
8 As we heard, so we saw within
the Lord of host's city,
in our God's city, God will it
stablish eternally. Selah.
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9 O God we have had thoughts upon
thy free benignity,
within the very middle part
of thy temple holy,
10 According to thy name, o God
so is thy praise unto
the ends of the earth: thy right hand’s full
of righteousness also.
11 Let the mountain Sion rejoice,
and triumph let them make
who are the daughters of Judah,
ev’n for thy judgments sake.
12 About the hill of Sion walk,
and go about her ye,
and do ye reckon up thereof
the tow’rs that therein be.
13 Doe ye full well her bulwarks mark,
her Palaces view well,
that to the generation
to come ye may it tell.
14 For this same God he is our God
for ever and for aye:
likewise unto the very death
he guides us in our way.