Psalms 48:13 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 48:13

consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Theodoret of Cyrus

COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 48:7 (458)

Each generation has to pass on to the next what we have received from the former so that the saving message may pass to all generations, and all people know that he is our God and Lord, good shepherd, everlasting. Since he said, "take its …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Some think this refers to the ceremony of the triumph; let those who are employed in that solemnity walk round the walls (as they did, Neh. xii. 31 ), singing and praising God.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

Mark ye well her bulwarks. Consider most attentively how strong are her ramparts, how safely her inhabitants are entrenched behind successive lines of defence. The security of the people of God is not a doctrine to be kept in the background, it may be safely taught, and frequently pondered; only to base hearts will that glorious truth prove harmful; the sons of perdition make a stumbling stone even of the Lord Jesus himself, it is little wonder that they pervert the truth of God concerning the final perseverance of the saints.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שִׁ֤יתוּ	Shi.tu	set	H7896 →
לִבְּכֶ֨ם׀	li.be.Khem	heart your	H3820 →
לְֽחֵילָ֗ה	le.chei.Lah	to rampart its	H2430 →
פַּסְּג֥וּ	pa.se.Gu	walk through	H6448 →
אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֑יהָ	'ar.me.no.Tei.ha	fortresses its	H759 →
לְמַ֥עַן	le.Ma.'an	so that	H4616 →
תְּ֝סַפְּר֗וּ	te.sa.pe.Ru	you may recount [it]	H5608 →
לְד֣וֹר	le.Dor	to a generation	H1755 →
אַחֲרֽוֹן׃	'a.cha.Ron	later	H314 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 6:7
  And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 71:18
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
leads to
- Isaiah 46:4
  Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and…
- Psalms 71:9
  Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
- Psalms 78:4
  We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
- Psalms 145:4–5
  One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Psalms 78:6
  that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
Through
Joel 1:3
Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
leads to
- Psalms 71:18
  Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
- Psalms 145:4
  One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms