---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 48
verse_count: 14
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 48, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 48

*The situation and glory of Zion. A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.*

**1** Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
**2** Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
**3** God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
**4** For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
**5** They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
**6** Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
**7** Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
**8** As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish it for ever. Selah.
**9** We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
**10** According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth; thy right hand is full of righteousness.
**11** Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
**12** Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers thereof.
**13** Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
**14** For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even unto death.