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Psalm 48

¹Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
²Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
³God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
⁴For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
⁵They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
⁶Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
⁷Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
⁸As 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.
⁹We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
¹⁰According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
¹³Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

⁸Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
⁹Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
¹⁰Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
¹¹I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.
¹²I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
¹³Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

¹³And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
¹⁴But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
¹⁵But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
¹⁶Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
¹⁷For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
¹⁸For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
¹⁹By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
²⁰Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
²¹The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
²²Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.