< Psalms 48 >
1 A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
song melody to/for son: descendant/people Korah great: large LORD and to boast: praise much in/on/with city God our mountain: mount holiness his
2 Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
beautiful elevation rejoicing all [the] land: country/planet mountain: mount Zion flank Zaphon town king many
3 God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
God in/on/with citadel: palace her to know to/for high refuge
4 For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.
for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together
5 They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.
they(masc.) to see: see so to astounded to dismay to hurry
6 Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget
7 With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
in/on/with spirit: breath east to break fleet Tarshish
8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever.
like/as as which to hear: hear so to see: see in/on/with city LORD Hosts in/on/with city God our God to establish: establish her till forever: enduring (Selah)
9 Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
to resemble God kindness your in/on/with entrails: among temple your
10 Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
like/as name your God so praise your upon boundary land: country/planet righteousness to fill right your
11 Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
to rejoice mountain: mount Zion to rejoice daughter Judah because justice: judgement your
12 March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
to turn: surround Zion and to surround her to recount tower her
13 consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
to set: consider heart your to/for bulwark her to go through citadel: palace her because to recount to/for generation last
14 For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
for this God God our forever: enduring and perpetuity he/she/it to lead us upon to die