- Great is the Lord, and with great praise,
- to be advanced still:
- Within the City of our God,
- upon his holy hill.
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- 2 Mount Zion is a pleasant place,
- it gladdeth all the land:
- The city of the mighty King
- on her North side doth stand.
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- 3 Within the Palaces thereof,
- God is a refuge known:
- For lo the kings are gathered, and
- together eke are gone.
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- 4 But when they did behold it so,
- they wondered and they were
- Astonied much, and suddenly,
- were driven back with fear.
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- 5 Great terrors then on them do fall,
- for very woe they cry:
- As doeth a woman when she shall,
- go travel by and by.
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- 6 As thou with Eastern wind the ships,
- upon the sea dost break:
- So they were stayed, and even as
- we heard our fathers speak.
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- 7 Lo in the City of our God,
- we saw as it was told:
- Yea in the City which our God,
- for ever will uphold.
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- 8 O Lord we wait and do attend,
- on thy good help and grace,
- For which we do all times attend
- within thy holy place.
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- 9 O Lord according to thy name,
- for ever is thy praise:
- And thy right hand, O Lord is full
- of righteousness always.
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- 10 Let for thy judgments Zion mount,
- fulfilled be with joys:
- And eke of Judah grant (O Lord)
- the daughters to rejoice.
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- 11 God walk about all Zion hill,
- yea round about her go:
- And tell the towers that there upon
- are builded on a row.
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- 12 And mark you well her bulwarks all,
- behold her towers there:
- That ye may tell thereof to them,
- that after shall be here.
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- 13 For this God is our God,
- forevermore is he:
- Yea and unto the death also,
- our guider shall he be.
