< 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 Melodious Song. For the Sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and worthy to be mightily praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.
2 beautiful elevation rejoicing all [the] land: country/planet mountain: mount Zion flank Zaphon town king many
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of all the land, Is Mount Zion, in the recesses of the north, —The city of a great king.
3 God in/on/with citadel: palace her to know to/for high refuge
God, in her palaces, is to be known as a high tower.
4 for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together
For lo! Kings—Met as appointed, Passed by together;
5 they(masc.) to see: see so to astounded to dismay to hurry
They themselves, saw, So, were they amazed, Dismayed—they hurried way!
6 trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget
Trembling, seized them, there, Pangs. like hers who is in travail.
7 in/on/with spirit: breath east to break fleet Tarshish
With an east wind, wilt thou shatter 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)
Just as we have heard, So, have we seen, In the city of Yahweh of hosts, In the city of our God, God himself, will establish her, unto times age-abiding. (Selah)
9 to resemble God kindness your in/on/with entrails: among temple your
We have thought, O God, upon thy lovingkindness, 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, be thy praise, unto the ends of the earth, With righteousness, is, thy right hand, filled.
11 to rejoice mountain: mount Zion to rejoice daughter Judah because justice: judgement your
Let Mount Zion rejoice, Let the daughters of Judah exult, Because of thy judgments.
12 to turn: surround Zion and to surround her to recount tower her
Go round Zion, and compass her about, Reckon up 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
Apply your mind to her rampart, Pass between her palaces, That ye may recount them to an after generation;
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, to times age-abiding and beyond, He himself, will conduct us till death.