Psalms 49; Psalms 50

1 (48-1) <Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.> (48-2) Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

2 (48-3) All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

3 (48-4) My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

4 (48-5) I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

5 (48-6) Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.

6 (48-7) They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,

7 (48-8) No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

8 (48-9) Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

9 (48-10) And shall still live unto the end.

10 (48-11) He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

11 (48-12) And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

12 (48-13) And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

13 (48-14) This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

14 (48-15) They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

15 (48-16) But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

16 (48-17) Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rick, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

17 (48-18) For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

18 (48-19) For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

19 (48-20) He shall g in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

20 (48-21) Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

1 (49-1) <A psalm for Asaph.> The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

2 (49-2) Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

3 (49-3) God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.

4 (49-4) He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.

5 (49-5) Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

6 (49-6) And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

7 (49-7) Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

8 (49-8) I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

9 (49-9) I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

10 (49-10) For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

11 (49-11) I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.

12 (49-12) If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

13 (49-13) Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

14 (49-14) Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

15 (49-15) And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

16 (49-16) But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

17 (49-17) Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

18 (49-18) If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.

19 (49-19) Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

20 (49-20) Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:

21 (49-21) These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

22 (49-22) Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

23 (49-23) The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.