“Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 48 contains 14 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.