Psalms 48

1 A song or Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praysed, in the Citie of our God, euen vpon his holy Mountaine.

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 Mount Zion, lying Northwarde, is faire in situation: it is the ioy of the whole earth, and the Citie of the great King.

beautiful elevation rejoicing all [the] land: country/planet mountain: mount Zion flank Zaphon town king many

3 In the palaces thereof God is knowen for a refuge.

God in/on/with citadel: palace her to know to/for high refuge

4 For lo, the Kings were gathered, and went together.

for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together

5 When they sawe it, they marueiled: they were astonied, and suddenly driuen backe.

they(masc.) to see: see so to astounded to dismay to hurry

6 Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.

trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget

7 As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.

in/on/with spirit: breath east to break fleet Tarshish

8 As we haue heard, so haue we seene in the citie of the Lord of hostes, in the Citie of our God: God will stablish it for euer. (Selah)

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 We waite for thy louing kindnes, O God, in the middes of thy Temple.

to resemble God kindness your in/on/with entrails: among temple your

10 O God, according vnto thy Name, so is thy prayse vnto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteousnes.

like/as name your God so praise your upon boundary land: country/planet righteousness to fill right your

11 Let mount Zion reioyce, and the daughters of Iudah be glad, because of thy iudgements.

to rejoice mountain: mount Zion to rejoice daughter Judah because justice: judgement your

12 Compasse about Zion, and goe round about it, and tell the towres thereof.

to turn: surround Zion and to surround her to recount tower her

13 Marke well the wall thereof: beholde her towres, that ye may tell your posteritie.

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 for euer and euer: he shall be our guide vnto the death.

for this God God our forever: enduring and perpetuity he/she/it to lead us upon to die