Psalms 48

1 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

A Song; a Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the hill of his holiness.

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

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

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

God is known in her palaces as a high fortress.

4 for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together

For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;

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

They saw, — so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:

6 trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget

Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail.

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

With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.

8 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)

As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God doth establish it for ever. (Selah)

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

We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.

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

According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

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

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

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

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers thereof;

13 to set: consider heart your to/for bulwark her to go through citadel: palace her because to recount to/for generation last

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.

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

For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death.