KJV King James Version
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following.
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Psalm 48:13
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
WEB World English Bible
Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
ASV American Standard Version
Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,
Surrounding context — Psalm 48
10 According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following.
14 For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death.
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Psalm 71:18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.Psalm 122:7Peace be within thy walls, [and] prosperity within thy palaces.Joel 1:3Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.Psalm 78:4-6We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.Deuteronomy 11:19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.Acts 15:14-16Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.Isaiah 58:12And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.Amos 9:11In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
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