1: Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city
of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. |
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2: Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. |
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God is known in her palaces for a refuge. |
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4: For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
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5: They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and
hasted away. |
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6: Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in
travail. |
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7: Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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8: As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
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9: We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of
thy temple. |
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10: According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends
of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. |
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11: Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
because of thy judgments. |
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12: Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
thereof. |
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13: Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may
tell it to the generation following. |
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14: For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our
guide even unto death. |