Psalms 49

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
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 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.	2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
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 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.	4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.	5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.	6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.	7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.	8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.	9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.	10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.	11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.	12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?	13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.	14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.	15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?	16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.	17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.	18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.	19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.	20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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.
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.