Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

For this God is our God eternally and for ever; he will be our guide even unto death.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

We have conceived according to thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Walk about Zion and go round about her; tell the towers thereof.

According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth; thy right hand is full of righteousness.

God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

For, behold, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of the hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Fear took hold upon them there and pain as of a woman in travail.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgments.

They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled and hasted away.