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 [unto perpetuity].
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 [Set your heart to] 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.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]