Psalm 46–49

Psalm 46

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.

¹God is our refuge and strength,

A very present help in trouble.

²Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change,

And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas

³Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,

Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah

⁴There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God,

The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

⁵God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:

God will help her, and that right early.

⁶The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved:

He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

⁷Jehovah of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

⁸Come, behold the works of Jehovah,

What desolations he hath made in the earth.

⁹He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;

He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;

He burneth the chariots in the fire.

¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God:

I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

¹¹Jehovah of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Psalm 47

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Oh clap your hands, all ye peoples;

Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

²For Jehovah Most High is terrible;

He is a great King over all the earth.

³He subdueth peoples under us,

And nations under our feet.

⁴He chooseth our inheritance for us,

The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah

⁵God is gone up with a shout,

Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet.

⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises:

Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

⁷For God is the King of all the earth:

Sing ye praises with understanding.

⁸God reigneth over the nations:

God sitteth upon his holy throne.

⁹The princes of the peoples are gathered together

To be the people of the God of Abraham;

For the shields of the earth belong unto God:

He is greatly exalted.

Psalm 48

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised,

In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

²Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,

Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north,

The city of the great King.

³God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

⁴For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,

They passed by together.

⁵They saw it, then were they amazed;

They were dismayed, they hasted away.

⁶Trembling took hold of them there,

Pain, as of a woman in travail.

⁷With the east wind

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

⁸As we have heard, so have we seen

In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God:

God will establish it for ever. Selah

⁹We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God,

In the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰As is thy name, O God,

So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:

Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Let mount Zion be glad,

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,

Because of thy judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her;

Number 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.

Psalm 49

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Hear this, all ye peoples;

Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

²Both low and high,

Rich and poor together.

³My mouth shall speak wisdom;

And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

⁴I will incline mine ear to a parable:

I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

⁵Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,

When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?

⁶They that trust in their wealth,

And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

⁷None of them can by any means redeem his brother,

Nor give to God a ransom for him;

⁸(For the redemption of their life is costly,

And it faileth for ever),

⁹That he should still live alway,

That he should not see corruption.

¹⁰For he shall see it.

Wise men die;

The fool and the brutish alike perish,

And leave their wealth to others.

¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,

And their dwelling-places to all generations;

They call their lands after their own names.

¹²But man being in honor abideth not:

He is like the beasts that perish.

¹³This their way is their folly:

Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah

¹⁴They are appointed as a flock for Sheol;

Death shall be their shepherd;

And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;

And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume,

That there be no habitation for it.

¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol;

For he will receive me. Selah

¹⁶Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,

When the glory of his house is increased:

¹⁷For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away;

His glory shall not descend after him.

¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul

(And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself),

¹⁹He shall go to the generation of his fathers;

They shall never see the light.

²⁰Man that is in honor, and understandeth not,

Is like the beasts that perish.