Psalms 49

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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.