Psalms 48

1 A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

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

2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

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

3 God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

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

4 For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together

5 They saw it, then were they amazed; they were dismayed, they hasted away.

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

6 Trembling took hold of them there; pain, as of a woman in travail.

trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget

7 With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

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

8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. (Selah)

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)

9 We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

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

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

like/as name your God so praise your upon boundary land: country/planet righteousness to fill right your

11 Let mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of thy judgments.

to rejoice mountain: mount Zion to rejoice daughter Judah because justice: judgement your

12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

to turn: surround Zion and to surround her to recount tower her

13 Mark ye welt her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

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

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death.

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