1A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.⇆ compare2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.⇆ compare3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.⇆ compare4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.⇆ compare5They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away.⇆ compare6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.⇆ compare7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.⇆ compare8As 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 forever. Selah.⇆ compare9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.⇆ compare10According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.⇆ compare11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.⇆ compare12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.⇆ compare13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.⇆ compare14For this God is our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.⇆ compare