1 Great is the LORD and much to be praised, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.
2 Lovely in its height, the joy of all the earth, is Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
3 God, in her strongholds, has shown himself to be a high refuge.
4 For look, the kings met together; they passed on together.
5 They looked, and then they were amazed; they were dismayed and rushed away.
6 Trembling took hold of them there, pain like that of a woman giving birth,
7 as with an east wind you break the ships of Tarshish.
8 Just as we heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God; God will make her firm forever. Selah.
9 We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, inside your temple.
10 Like your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice; let the daughters of Judah be glad because of your judgments.
12 Go about Zion and circle her; number her towers.
13 Pay close attention to her ramparts; pass through her citadels, so that you can recount it to a later generation.
14 For this is God, our God, forever and ever; he will lead us until death.