Psalms 47

¹A Psalm of Canticle to the sons of Core, the second of the Sabbath.

²Great is our Lord, and to be praised exceedingly, in the city of our God, in his holy mount.

³Mount Sion is founded with the exultation of the whole earth, the sides of the North, the city of the great King.

⁴God shall be known in the houses thereof, when he shall receive it.

⁵For behold the kings of the earth were gathered together: they assembled in one.

⁶They seeing it so were in admiration, were troubled, were moved:

⁷Trembling took them. Their sorrows as a woman travailing.

⁸In a vehement spirit thou shalt break the ships of Tharsis.

⁹As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

¹⁰We have received thy mercy, o God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹¹According to thy name, o God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.

¹²Let mount Sion be glad, and the daughters of Juda rejoice, because of thy judgments, o Lord.

¹³Compass Sion, and embrace ye her: tell ye in her towers.

¹⁴Set your hearts on her strength: and distribute ye her houses, that you may declare it in another generation.

¹⁵Because this is God, our God for ever, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us evermore.