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 by the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be 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
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
3 God in/on/with citadel: palace her to know to/for high refuge
God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
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 it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
6 trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget
Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 in/on/with spirit: breath east to break fleet Tarshish
With the east wind, you break 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 we have seen, in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. (Selah)
9 to resemble God kindness your in/on/with entrails: among temple your
We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
10 like/as name your God so praise your upon boundary land: country/planet righteousness to fill right your
As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11 to rejoice mountain: mount Zion to rejoice daughter Judah because justice: judgement your
Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgements.
12 to turn: surround Zion and to surround her to recount tower her
Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
13 to set: consider heart your to/for bulwark her to go through citadel: palace her because to recount to/for generation last
Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next 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 forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
