Psalm 48:13 {47:14}
Good News Translation
take notice of the walls and examine the fortresses, so that you may tell the next generation:

New Revised Standard Version
consider well its ramparts; go through its citadels, that you may tell the next generation

Contemporary English Version
We will see its strong walls and visit each fortress. Then you can say to future generations,

New American Bible
Consider the ramparts, examine its citadels, that you may tell future generations:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.

Mark ye well [heb.

Isaiah 58:12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.

Amos 9:11 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Acts 15:14-16 Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name. . . .

that ye

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Psalm 78:4 They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.

Deuteronomy 11:19 Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.

Joel 1:3 Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

Context
Broken Bondage
12Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers. 13Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.14For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.…
Cross References
Psalm 78:5
And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children:

Psalm 102:18
Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

Psalm 122:3
Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

Psalm 122:7
Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.

Isaiah 49:16
Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.

Jeremiah 30:18
Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring back the captivity of the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city shall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded according to the order thereof.

Ezekiel 21:20
Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the strong city.

Psalm 48:12
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