Psalm 46–49

Psalm 46

¹Unto the end, for the sons of Core.

²O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy,

³For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

⁴He hath subdued the people under us; and the nations under our feet.

⁵He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

⁶God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

⁷Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye.

⁸For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.

⁹God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

¹⁰The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

Psalm 47

¹A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week.

²Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

³With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

⁴In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.

⁵For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together.

⁶So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved:

⁷Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

⁸With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.

⁹As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

¹⁰We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹¹According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.

¹²Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord.

¹³Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers.

¹⁴Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.

¹⁵For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.

Psalm 48

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.

Psalm 49

¹A psalm for Asaph.

The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

²Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

³God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.

⁴He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.

⁵Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

⁶And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

⁷Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

⁹I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

¹⁰For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

¹¹I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.

¹²If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

¹³Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹⁶But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

¹⁷Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

¹⁸If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.

¹⁹Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

²⁰Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:

²¹These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

²²Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

²³The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.