Psalm 48:2

“But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Yahweh all the workers of iniquity.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation.

It is like the dew of Hermon Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For there, Yahweh commanded the blessing—life forever.

“You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, As lovely as Jerusalem, As majestic as an army with banners.

All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth’?”

on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

‘Now as for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their strong defense, the joy of their beauty, the desire of their eyes, and what lifts up their soul, their sons and their daughters,

“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although Yahweh was there,

In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and caused me to rest on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.

And out of one of them came forth a rather small horn. And it grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land.

or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.