God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found. Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas; Though the waters thereof roar and foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

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 high fortress. Selah. ⁸Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth: ⁹He hath made 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 high fortress. Selah.

Psalm 47

To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

All ye peoples, clap your hands; shout unto God with the voice of triumph! For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth. He subdueth the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet. He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

⁵God is gone up amid shouting, Jehovah amid the sound of the trumpet. ⁶Sing psalms of God, sing psalms; sing psalms unto our King, sing psalms! ⁷For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with understanding. ⁸God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. ⁹The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, with the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God belong the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted.

Psalm 48

A Song; a Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.

Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the hill of his holiness. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is known in her palaces as a high fortress. For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together; They saw, —so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation: Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail. With an east wind thou hast broken 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 doth establish it for ever. Selah. ⁹We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, 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: count 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 until death.

Psalm 49

To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world: Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike. My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding: I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp. Wherefore should I fear in the days of adversity, when the iniquity of my supplanters encompasseth me? —

⁶They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. … ⁷None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, ⁸(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,) ⁹That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption. ¹⁰For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others. ¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names. ¹²Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. ¹³This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah. ¹⁴Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for he will receive me. Selah. ¹⁶Be not afraid when a man becometh 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 he blessed his soul in his lifetime, —and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, — ¹⁹It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light. ²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

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