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 and psalm by the sons of Korach.” Great is the Lord, and highly praised in the city of our God, [in] his holy mountain.

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

A beautiful district, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, the farthest north, the city of the great King.

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

God is become known in her palaces as a defence.

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

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they are passed away together.

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

They indeed saw—[and] so they were astonished; they were terrified, they were confounded.

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

Trembling seized on them there, pain, as on a woman in travail.

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

With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tharshish.

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 [it] in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. (Selah)

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

We have reflected on thy kindness, O God, 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

As thy name is, O God, so is thy praise over the ends of the earth: of righteousness is thy right hand full.

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

Compass Zion about, and walk round about her; number her towers.

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

Direct your mind to her outer wall, mark carefully her palaces: in order that ye may tell it to the latest generation.

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

For this One is God, our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.