Psalms 48:13

What does Psalms 48:13 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 48:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Context

v.12Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof;

v.13This passage

v.14For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Joel 1:3

    Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

  • Deuteronomy 11:19

    And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

  • Psalms 78:4

    We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.

  • Amos 9:11

    In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

  • Acts 15:14

    Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

  • Psalms 71:18

    Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

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