Psalms 48

¹Unto the end, to the sons of Core a Psalm.

²Hear these things all ye Gentiles: receive with your ears all ye that inhabit the earth.

³All ye earthly persons, and children of men: together in one the rich and the poor.

⁴My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart prudence.

⁵I will incline mine ear unto a parable: I will open my proposition on a Psalter.

⁶Why shall I fear in the evil day? The iniquity of my heel shall compass me.

⁷They that trust in their strength: and glory in the multitude of their riches.

⁸A brother doth not redeem, man shall redeem: he shall not give unto God his reconciliation.

⁹And the price of the redemption of his own soul: and he shall labour for ever,

¹⁰and shall live yet unto the end.

¹¹He shall not see death, when he shall see the wise dying, the unwise, and the fool shall perish together. And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

¹²and their sepulchres their houses for ever. Their Tabernacles in generation and generation: they have renowned their names in their lands.

¹³And man when he was in honour, did not understand: he was compared to beasts without understanding, and became like to them.

¹⁴This their way is a scandal to them: and afterward in their mouth they shall take pleasure.

¹⁵As sheep they are put in hell: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall rule over them in the morning: and their aid shall wax old in hell from their glory.

¹⁶Nevertheless God will redeem my soul out of the hand of hell, when he shall take me,

¹⁷Fear not when a man shall be made rich: and when the glory of his house shall be multiplied.

¹⁸Because when he shall die, he shall not take all things: neither shall his glory go down with him.

¹⁹Because his soul in his life shall be blessed: he will confess to thee when thou shalt do him good.

²⁰He shall enter in, even to the progenies of his fathers: and he shall not see light for ever.

²¹Man, when he was in honour, did not understand: he was compared to beasts without understanding, and became like to them.