48:13 Consider its defenses! 1
Walk through 2 its fortresses,
so you can tell the next generation about it! 3
122:7 May there be peace inside your defenses,
and prosperity 4 inside your fortresses! 5
1 tn Heb “set your heart to its rampart.”
2 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word translated “walk through,” which occurs only here in the OT, is uncertain. Cf. NEB “pass…in review”; NIV “view.”
3 sn The city’s towers, defenses, and fortresses are outward reminders and tangible symbols of the divine protection the city enjoys.
4 tn or “security.”
5 tn The psalmist uses second feminine singular pronominal forms to address personified Jerusalem.