Study Desk

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

The Lord is great and highly praised in the city of our God.^(a) His holy mountain,

²rising splendidly, is the joy of the whole earth. Mount Zion on the slopes of the north is the city of the great King.^(b)

God is known as a stronghold in its citadels.^(c)

Look! The kings assembled; they advanced together.^(d)

They looked and froze with fear; they fled in terror.^(e)

Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,^(f)

as You wrecked the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.^(g)

Just as we heard, so we have seen in the city of Yahweh of Hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish it forever.^(h) Selah

God, within Your temple, we contemplate Your faithful love.⁽ⁱ⁾

Your name, God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth;^(j) Your right hand is filled with justice.^(k)

Mount Zion is glad. The towns^[a] of Judah rejoice because of Your judgments.^(l)

Go around Zion, encircle it; count its towers,

note its ramparts; tour its citadels so that you can tell a future generation:^(m)

"This God, our God forever and ever— He will always lead us."^[b](n)