Psalms 49

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¹ A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,	¹ Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
² from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.	² Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
³ God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.	³ All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
⁴ He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.	⁴ My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
⁵ Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.	⁵ I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
⁶ And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.	⁶ Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
⁷ Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.	⁷ They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,
⁸ I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.	⁸ No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
⁹ I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.	⁹ Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
¹⁰ For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.	¹⁰ and shall still live unto the end.
¹¹ I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.	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:
¹² If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.	¹² and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.
¹³ Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?	¹³ And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.
¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.	¹⁴ This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.	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.
¹⁶ But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?	¹⁶ But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.
¹⁷ Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.	¹⁷ Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.
¹⁸ If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.	¹⁸ For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
¹⁹ Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.	¹⁹ For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.
²⁰ Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.	²⁰ He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
²¹ These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.	²¹ Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.
²² Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
²³ The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.

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