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 sons of Korah. Great [is] Jehovah, and praised greatly, In the city of our God — His holy hill.
2 beautiful elevation rejoicing all [the] land: country/planet mountain: mount Zion flank Zaphon town king many
Beautiful [for] elevation, A joy of all the land, [is] Mount Zion, The sides 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 high places is known for a tower.
4 for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together
For, lo, the kings met, they passed by together,
5 they(masc.) to see: see so to astounded to dismay to hurry
They have seen — so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.
6 trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget
Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.
7 in/on/with spirit: breath east to break fleet Tarshish
By an east wind Thou shiverest 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 Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her — to the age. (Selah)
9 to resemble God kindness your in/on/with entrails: among temple your
We have thought, O God, of Thy 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
As [is] Thy name, O God, so [is] Thy praise, Over the ends of the earth, Righteousness hath filled Thy right hand.
11 to rejoice mountain: mount Zion to rejoice daughter Judah because justice: judgement your
Rejoice doth Mount Zion, The daughters of Judah are joyful, For the sake of Thy judgments.
12 to turn: surround Zion and to surround her to recount tower her
Compass Zion, and go round her, count 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
Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,
14 for this God God our forever: enduring and perpetuity he/she/it to lead us upon to die
That this God [is] our God — To the age and for ever, He — he doth lead us over death!
