(A)Beautiful in [a]elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.

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  1. Psalm 48:2 height

Beautiful(A) in its loftiness,
    the joy of the whole earth,
like the heights of Zaphon[a](B) is Mount Zion,(C)
    the city of the Great King.(D)

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  1. Psalm 48:2 Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will (A)establish it forever. Selah

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As we have heard,
    so we have seen
in the city of the Lord Almighty,
    in the city of our God:
God makes her secure
    forever.[a](A)

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  1. Psalm 48:8 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.