Psalms 48 Comparison: Catholic Public Domain vs KJV with Apocrypha

Psalms 48

¹Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.

²Hear these things, all nations. Pay attention, all inhabitants of the world:

³whoever is earth-born, you sons of men, together as one, the rich and the poor.

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

⁵I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my case with the psaltery.

⁶Why should I fear in the evil day? The iniquity at my heel will surround me.

⁷Those who trust in their own strength and who glory in the multitude of their riches,

⁸no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,

⁹nor the price for the redemption of his soul. And he will labor continuously,

¹⁰and he will still live, until the end.

¹¹He will not see death, when he sees the wise dying: the foolish and the senseless will perish together. And they will leave their riches to strangers.

¹²And their sepulchers will be their houses forever, their tabernacles from generation to generation. They have called their names in their own lands.

¹³And man, when he was held in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

¹⁴This way of theirs is a scandal to them. And afterwards, they will delight in their mouth.

¹⁵They have been placed in Hell like sheep. Death will feed on them. And the just will have dominion over them in the morning. And their help will grow old in Hell for their glory.

¹⁶Even so, truly God will redeem my soul from the hand of Hell, when he will receive me.

¹⁷Do not be afraid, when a man will have been made rich, and when the glory of his house will have been multiplied.

¹⁸For when he dies, he will take nothing away, and his glory will not descend with him.

¹⁹For his soul will be blessed in his lifetime, and he will admit to you when you do good to him.

²⁰He will even enter with the progeny of his fathers, but, even in eternity, he will not see the light.

²¹Man, when he was in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

Psalms 48

¹Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

²Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

⁴For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

⁵They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

⁶Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

⁷Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

⁸As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

⁹We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

¹³Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.