Greetings!  This is another great Psalm of praise.   I like how it closes with a promise with an eternal perspective – that God will always be our God and our guide. 

This appears to be referring to the “New Jerusalem,” since the current one was destroyed a couple times since this was written. 

Psalm 48

A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.

¹ Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise,

in the city of our God, his holy mountain.

² It is beautiful in its loftiness,

the joy of the whole earth.

Like the utmost heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion,

the city of the Great King.

³ God is in her citadels;

he has shown himself to be her fortress.

⁴ When the kings joined forces,

when they advanced together,

⁵ they saw her and were astounded;

they fled in terror.

⁶ Trembling seized them there,

pain like that of a woman in labor.

⁷ You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish

shattered by an east wind.

⁸ As we have heard,

so have we seen

in the city of the Lord Almighty,

in the city of our God:

God makes her secure forever. Selah

⁹ Within your temple, O God,

we meditate on your unfailing love.

¹⁰ Like your name, O God,

your praise reaches to the ends of the earth;

your right hand is filled with righteousness.

¹¹ Mount Zion rejoices,

the villages of Judah are glad

because of your judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion, go around her,

count her towers,

¹³ consider well her ramparts,

view her citadels,

that you may tell of them to the next generation.

¹⁴ For this God is our God for ever and ever;

he will be our guide even to the end.

The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.