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可拉後裔的詩歌。

錫安-上帝的城

  1耶和華本為大!
   在我們上帝的城中,
  在他的聖山上,
   當受大讚美。
  2錫安山-大君王的城,
   在北面居高華美,
   為全地所喜悅。
  3上帝在城的宮殿中,
   自顯為避難所。

  4看哪,諸王會合,
   一同經過。
  5他們見了這城就驚奇喪膽,
   急忙逃跑。
  6戰兢在那裏抓住他們,
   他們好像臨產的婦人一樣陣痛。
  7上帝啊,你用東風擊破他施的船隻。
  8我們在萬軍之耶和華的城裏,
   就是我們上帝的城裏,
   所看見的正如我們所聽見的。
  上帝必堅立這城,直到永遠。(細拉)

  9上帝啊,我們在你的殿中
   想念你的慈愛。
  10上帝啊,你受的讚美正與你的名相稱,直到地極!
   你的右手滿了公義。
  11因你的判斷,錫安山應當歡喜,
   猶大的城鎮應當快樂。

  12你們當周遊錫安
   四圍環繞,數點城樓,
  13細看它的城郭,
   察看它的宮殿,
  為要傳揚給後代。
  14因為這上帝永永遠遠為我們的上帝,
   他必作我們引路的,直到死時

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The Glory of God in Zion

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
  1Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
   In the city of our God,
   In His holy mountain.
   2Beautiful in elevation,
   The joy of the whole earth,
   Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
   The city of the great King.
   3God is in her palaces;
   He is known as her refuge.
  4For behold, the kings assembled,
   They passed by together.
   5They saw it, and so they marveled;
   They were troubled, they hastened away.
   6Fear took hold of them there,
   And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
   7As when You break the ships of Tarshish
   With an east wind.
  8As we have heard,
   So we have seen
   In the city of the Lord of hosts,
   In the city of our God:
   God will establish it forever.
Selah
  9We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness,
   In the midst of Your temple.
   10According to Your name, O God,
   So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
   Your right hand is full of righteousness.
   11Let Mount Zion rejoice,
   Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
   Because of Your judgments.
  12Walk about Zion,
   And go all around her.
   Count her towers;
   13Mark well her bulwarks;
   Consider her palaces;
   That you may tell it to the generation following.
   14For this is God,
   Our God forever and ever;
   He will be our guide
   Even to death.