- The City shall full well endure,
- her ground work still doth stay:
- Upon the holy hill full sure,
- it can no time decay.
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- 2 God loves the gates of Zion best,
- his grace doth there abide,
- He loves them more than all the rest,
- of Jacob’s tent beside.
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- 3 Full glorious things reported be,
- in Zion and abroad:
- Great things I say are said of thee,
- thou City of our God.
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- 4 On Rahab I will cast an eye,
- and bear in mind the same,
- And Babylon shall eke apply,
- and learn to know my name.
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- 5 Lo Palestine and Tyre also,
- with Ethiopie likewise,
- A people old full long ago,
- were born and there did rise.
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- 6 Of Zion they shall say abroad,
- that diverse men of fame,
- Have there sprung up, and the high God
- hath founded fast the same.
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- 7 In their records to them it shall,
- through God’s devise appear:
- Of Zion that the chief of all
- had his beginning there.
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- 8 Their trumpeters with such as sing,
- therein great plenty be:
- My fountains and my pleasant springs,
- are ‘compassed all in thee.
