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Psalms 48:13 Explained in Context

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Verse 13. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

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Psalm 48:13: Within “Zion praised and walked around,” the line “Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces” supplies one distinct parallel claim, image, address, or response.

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  • Psalms 48:1–14

Read Psalms 48:13 with 48:1–14. Read alone, “Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 48:1–14, the communal voice carries the movement “Zion praised and walked around” as part of “Zion praised and walked around.” Its zion-song form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Psalms 48:1–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 48:1–14

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