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Psalms 48:12
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Go around Zion, encircle it;count its towers,
Walk about Tziyon, and go around her. Number the towers of it;
Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers,
Walk around Jerusalem and count its towers.
Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!
Walk about Zion, go all around her; Count her towers,
Walk around Zion and encircle her; Count her towers;
Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number the towers of it;
Compasse about Zion, and goe round about it, and tell the towres thereof.
Walk about Zion and go around her;Count her towers;
March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
Let's walk around Zion and count its towers.
Let Mount Tziyon rejoice, let the daughters of Y'hudah be glad, because of your judgment [on the enemy].
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers thereof;
Walk around Jerusalem, and count its towers.
Circle Zion, and go round about her; count the towers thereof.
People of God, walk around Zion and count the towers;
Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.
Walk around Zion; yea, go all around it; count its towers;
Walke aboute Sion, go rounde aboute her, and tell hir towres.
Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof;
Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.
Let mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of Thy judgments.
Walke about Sion, and goe round about her: tell the towres thereof.
Compasse about Sion, and go rounde about her: and tell the towres therof.
Go round about Sion, and encompass her: tell ye her towers.
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
Cumpasse ye Syon, and biclippe ye it; telle ye in the touris therof.
Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof;
Walk about Zion, and go round her: number her towers.
Walk about Zion, And go all around her. Count her towers;
Go, inspect the city of Jerusalem. Walk around and count the many towers.
Walk in Zion, and go around her. See how many towers she has.
Walk about Zion, go all around it, count its towers,
Go round Zion, and compass her about, Reckon up her towers;
(47-13) Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers.
Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers,
Compass Zion, and go round her, count her towers,
Circle Zion, take her measure, count her fortress peaks, Gaze long at her sloping bulwark, climb her citadel heights— Then you can tell the next generation detail by detail the story of God, Our God forever, who guides us till the end of time.
Walk about Zion and go around her; Count her towers;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Walk: Nehemiah 12:31-40, Matthew 24:1, Matthew 24:2
tell: Isaiah 33:18-20
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:7 - Zion 1 Chronicles 11:5 - the castle Isaiah 26:1 - salvation Isaiah 33:20 - Look Ezekiel 21:20 - the defenced Micah 4:8 - O tower Zephaniah 1:16 - and against Zechariah 2:5 - a wall
Cross-References
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord .
Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Walk about Zion, and go round about her,.... These words are either an address to the enemies of the church, sarcastically delivered; calling upon them to come, and surround, and besiege Zion, and see what the issue and consequence of it will he, even the same as that of the kings, Psalms 48:4; or to the builders of Zion, as Jarchi observes, to come and take a survey of it, and see what repairs were necessary; or rather to the saints, to the daughters of Judah before mentioned, to take a view of the strength and defence of the church, for their own comfort and encouragement, and to report the same to others for theirs also; for by walking around it may be observed the foundation, the rock and eminence on which it is built, Christ Jesus; the wall of it, the Lord himself, a wall of fire; the entrance into it, Christ the gate of righteousness; the fortress and strong hold of it the same; and the guards about it, the watch men on its walls, the ministers of the Gospel, and an innumerable company of angels, that in a circle surround both ministers and people; see Revelation 7:11;
tell the towers thereof; see 2 Chronicles 26:9; the Lord himself is the tower of his people, high and strong, which secures and defends them from all their enemies, Psalms 18:2; the ministers of the Gospel, who are immovable, and are set for the defence of it, Jeremiah 6:27; the Scriptures of truth, which are like a tower built for an armoury, out of which the saints are furnished and provided with proper armour, whereby they are able to engage with false teachers, and to overcome the evil one, Song of Solomon 4:4; and the ordinances of the Gospel, the church's two breasts, said to be as towers, Song of Solomon 8:10; some render the words, "tell in the towers" i; publish on the house tops, declare in the high places of the city, in the most public manner, the great things of the Gospel, which relate to the glory of Christ and his church.
i מגדליה εν τοις πυργοις αυτης, Sept. "in turribus ejus", V. L.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Walk about Zion - This is a call on all persons to go round the city; to take a survey of it; to see how beautiful and how strong it was - how it had escaped all danger, and was uninjured by the attempt to destroy it - how capable it was of resisting an attack. The word “walk” here means simply to go around or surround. The other word used has a more direct reference to a solemn procession.
And go round about her - The word used here - from נקף nâqaph - to fasten together, to join together, means to move round in a circle, as if persons joined together (see the notes at Job 1:5), and would refer here properly to a solemn procession moving round the city, and taking a deliberate survey of its entire circuit.
Tell the towers thereof - That is, Take the number of the towers. See how numerous they are; how firm they remain; what a defense and protection they constitute. Cities, surrounded by walls, had always “towers” or elevated portions as posts of observation, or as places from which missiles might be discharged with advantage on those who should attempt to scale the walls. Compare Genesis 11:4-5; 2 Chronicles 26:9-10; Isaiah 2:15.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 48:12. Walk about Zion — Consider the beauty and magnificence of the temple, count the towers by which it is fortified.
