Psaumes 48

¹ The Lord is great and highly praised
in the city of our God.His holy mountain,

² rising splendidly,
is the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion — the summit of Zaphon —
is the city of the great King.

³ God is known as a stronghold
in its citadels.

⁴ Look! The kings assembled;
they advanced together.

⁵ They looked and froze with fear;
they fled in terror.

⁶ Trembling seized them there,
agony like that of a woman in labor,

⁷ as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish
with the east wind.

⁸ Just as we heard, so we have seen
in the city of the Lord of Armies,
in the city of our God;
God will establish it forever.Selah

⁹ God, within your temple,
we contemplate your faithful love.

¹⁰ Like your name, God, so your praise
reaches to the ends of the earth;
your right hand is filled with justice.

¹¹ Mount Zion is glad.
Judah’s villages rejoice
because of your judgments.

¹² Go around Zion, encircle it;
count its towers,

¹³ note its ramparts; tour its citadels
so that you can tell a future generation:

¹⁴ “This God, our God forever and ever —
he will always lead us.”