Psalms 48

1 A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

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 for situation, 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 is 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 were assembled, they passed by together.

for behold [the] king to appoint to pass together

5 They saw it, and so they wondered; they were troubled, and hasted away.

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

6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

trembling to grasp them there agony like/as to beget

7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

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 of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

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

10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise to 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 rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

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

12 Walk about Zion, and go around her: number her towers.

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

13 Mark ye well 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 to death.

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