< 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 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.
2 beautiful elevation rejoicing all [the] land: country/planet mountain: mount Zion flank Zaphon town king many
Mount Zion, lying Northwarde, is faire in situation: it is the ioy of the whole earth, and the Citie of the great King.
3 God in/on/with citadel: palace her to know to/for high refuge
In the palaces thereof God is knowen for a refuge.
4 for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together
For lo, the Kings were gathered, and went together.
5 they(masc.) to see: see so to astounded to dismay to hurry
When they sawe it, they marueiled: they were astonied, and suddenly driuen backe.
6 trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget
Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.
7 in/on/with spirit: breath east to break fleet Tarshish
As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
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 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)
9 to resemble God kindness your in/on/with entrails: among temple your
We waite for thy louing kindnes, O God, in the middes of thy Temple.
10 like/as name your God so praise your upon boundary land: country/planet righteousness to fill right your
O God, according vnto thy Name, so is thy prayse vnto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteousnes.
11 to rejoice mountain: mount Zion to rejoice daughter Judah because justice: judgement your
Let mount Zion reioyce, and the daughters of Iudah be glad, because of thy iudgements.
12 to turn: surround Zion and to surround her to recount tower her
Compasse about Zion, and goe round about it, and tell the towres thereof.
13 to set: consider heart your to/for bulwark her to go through citadel: palace her because to recount to/for generation last
Marke well the wall thereof: beholde her towres, that ye may tell your posteritie.
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 euer and euer: he shall be our guide vnto the death.