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Psalm 47

1  Clap your hands together, all you peoples; ♦︎
   O sing to God with shouts of joy.
2  For the Lord Most High is to be feared; ♦︎
   he is the great King over all the earth.
3  He subdued the peoples under us ♦︎
   and the nations under our feet.
4  He has chosen our heritage for us, ♦︎
   the pride of Jacob, whom he loves.
5  God has gone up with a merry noise, ♦︎
   the Lord with the sound of the trumpet.
6  O sing praises to God, sing praises; ♦︎
   sing praises to our King, sing praises.
7  For God is the King of all the earth; ♦︎
   sing praises with all your skill.
8  God reigns over the nations; ♦︎
   God has taken his seat upon his holy throne.
9  The nobles of the peoples are gathered together ♦︎
   with the people of the God of Abraham.
10  For the powers of the earth belong to God ♦︎
   and he is very highly exalted.

Psalm 48

1  Great is the Lord and highly to be praised, ♦︎
   in the city of our God.
2  His holy mountain is fair and lifted high, ♦︎
   the joy of all the earth.
3  On Mount Zion, the divine dwelling place, ♦︎
   stands the city of the great king.
4  In her palaces God has shown himself ♦︎
   to be a sure refuge.
5  For behold, the kings of the earth assembled ♦︎
   and swept forward together.
6  They saw, and were dumbfounded; ♦︎
   dismayed, they fled in terror.
7  Trembling seized them there;
      they writhed like a woman in labour, ♦︎
   as when the east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.
8  As we had heard, so have we seen
      in the city of the Lord of hosts, the city of our God: ♦︎
   God has established her for ever.
9  We have waited on your loving-kindness, O God, ♦︎
   in the midst of your temple.
10  As with your name, O God,
      so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; ♦︎
   your right hand is full of justice.
11  Let Mount Zion rejoice and the daughters of Judah be glad, ♦︎
   because of your judgements, O Lord.
12  Walk about Zion and go round about her;
      count all her towers; ♦︎
   consider well her bulwarks; pass through her citadels,
13  That you may tell those who come after
      that such is our God for ever and ever. ♦︎
   It is he that shall be our guide for evermore.

Suffering for Doing Right

8 Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. ⁹Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing. ¹⁰For
‘Those who desire life
   and desire to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
   and their lips from speaking deceit;
¹¹ let them turn away from evil and do good;
   let them seek peace and pursue it.
¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
   and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.’