1: GOD majestic, praise abounds in our God--city! His sacred mountain,
2: breathtaking in its heights--earth's joy. Zion Mountain looms in the North, city of the world-King.
3: God in his citadel peaks impregnable.
4: The kings got together, they united and came.
5: They took one look and shook their heads, they scattered and ran away.
6: They doubled up in pain like a woman having a baby.
7: You smashed the ships of Tarshish with a storm out of the East.
8: We heard about it, then we saw it with our eyes--In GOD's city of angel armies, in the city our God Set on firm foundations, firm forever.
9: We pondered your love--in-action, God, waiting in your temple:
10: Your name, God, evokes a train of Hallelujahs wherever It is spoken, near and far; your arms are heaped with goodness-in-action.
11: Be glad, Zion Mountain; Dance, Judah's daughters! He does what he said he'd do!
12: Circle Zion, take her measure, count her fortress peaks,
13: Gaze long at her sloping bulwark, climb her citadel heights--Then you can tell the next generation detail by detail the story of God,
14: Our God forever, who guides us till the end of time. A psalm of the sons of Korah