Psalms 48

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¹Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.

²Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

³All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

⁴My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

⁵I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

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

⁷They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,

⁸No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

⁹Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

¹⁰And shall still live unto the end.

¹¹He 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:

¹²And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

¹³And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

¹⁴This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

¹⁵They 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.

¹⁶But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

¹⁷Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

¹⁸For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

¹⁹For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

²⁰He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

²¹Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to 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.