Psalms 49

DOUAI-RHEIMS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.	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,
2 Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.	2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
3 All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both 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.
4 My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.	4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
5 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.	5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
6 Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.	6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
7 They that trust in their own strength, and glory 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.
8 No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,	8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
9 Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,	9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
10 and shall still live unto the end.	10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
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 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
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 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
13 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.	13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
14 This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.	14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
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 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
16 But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.	16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
17 Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.	17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
18 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.	18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
19 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.	19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
20 He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.	20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
21 Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.	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.