Psalm 48:13 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

Consider ye her palaces, and mark her bulwarks well; That ye may tell posterity.

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

Consider well her ramparts, go through her palaces and citadels, that you may tell the next generation [and cease recalling disappointments].

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

Examine its defenses closely; tour its fortifications so that you may tell future generations:

And man, when he was held in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

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

Therefore I wish that peace may still within thy walls remain, And ever may thy palaces prosperity retain.

And now, Lord, leave me not, when I old and gray-headed grow: Till to this age thy strength and pow'r to all to come I show.

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