1 'n Lied. 'n Psalm van die kinders van Korag.
2 Die HERE is groot en baie lofwaardig in die stad van onse God, sy heilige berg!
3 Skoon deur sy verhewenheid, die vreugde van die hele aarde is die berg Sion, aan die noordekant, die stad van die groot Koning!
4 God het Hom in sy paleise bekend gemaak as 'n rotsvesting.
5 Want kyk, die konings het bymekaargekom, tesame opgetrek.
6 Skaars het hulle dit gesien, of hulle het verstom, verskrik geword, in angs weggevlug.
7 Bewing het hulle daar aangegryp, smart soos van een wat baar.
8 Deur die oostewind verbreek U die skepe van Tarsis.
9 Soos ons gehoor het, so het ons gesien in die stad van die HERE van die leërskare, in die stad van onse God: God sal dit bevestig tot in ewigheid. Sela.
10 o God, ons dink aan u goedertierenheid binne-in u tempel.
11 Soos u Naam, o God, so is u roem tot die eindes van die aarde toe; u regterhand is vol geregtigheid.
12 Laat die berg Sion bly wees, laat die dogters van Juda juig oor u oordele.
13 Gaan rondom Sion, trek daaromheen, tel sy torings;
14 let op sy skanse, wandel deur sy paleise, sodat julle dit aan die volgende geslag kan vertel, [ (Psalms 48:15) dat hierdie God onse God is, vir ewig en altyd; Hy sal ons lei tot die dood toe. ]
1 Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.
3 God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.
4 For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,
They passed by together.
5 They saw it, then were they amazed;
They were dismayed, they hasted away.
6 Trembling took hold of them there,
Pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 With the east wind
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen
In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God:
God will establish it for ever. [Selah
9 We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God,
In the midst of thy temple.
10 As is thy name, O God,
So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:
Thy right hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let mount Zion be glad,
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,
Because of thy judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her;
Number the towers thereof;
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces:
That ye may tell it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God for ever and ever:
He will be our guide even unto death.