The Beauty and Glory of Zion.
A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
In the city of our God, His holy mountain.
Is Mount Zion [the City of David] in the far north,
The city of the great King.
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.
They [came and] passed by together.
They were stricken with terror, they fled in alarm.
And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.
You shattered the ships of Tarshish.
In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God:
God will establish her forever. Selah.
In the midst of Your temple.
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness (rightness, justice).
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
Because of Your [righteous] judgments.
Count her towers,
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].
Our God forever and ever;
He will be our guide even until death.