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 Psalm of praise for the sons of Core on the second [day] of the week. 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

The city of the great King is well planted [on] the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, [on] the sides of the north.

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

God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her.

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

For, behold the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together.

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

They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved.

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

Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

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

You will break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.

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 also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. (Pause)

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

We have thought of your mercy, O God, in the midst of your people.

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

According to your name, O God, so is also 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 Sion rejoice, let the daughters of Judaea exult, because of your judgments, O Lord.

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

Go round about Sion, and encompass her: tell you 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

Mark you well her strength, and observe her palaces; that you may tell the next generation.

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

For this is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide for evermore.