Psalm 47–50

Psalm 47

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

¹Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples!

Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

²For the Lord Most High is awesome;

He is a great ^aKing over all the earth.

^3bHe will subdue the peoples under us,

And the nations under our feet.

⁴He will choose our ^cinheritance for us,

The excellence of Jacob whom He loves.

Selah

^5dGod has gone up with a shout,

The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises!

Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

^7eFor God is the King of all the earth;

^fSing praises with understanding.

^8gGod reigns over the nations;

God ^hsits on His ⁱholy throne.

⁹The princes of the people have gathered together,

^jThe people of the God of Abraham.

^kFor the shields of the earth belong to God;

He is greatly exalted.

Psalm 48

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

¹Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

In the ^acity of our God,

In His holy mountain.

^2bBeautiful in ¹elevation,

The joy of the whole earth,

Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,

The city of the great King.

³God is in her palaces;

He is known as her refuge.

⁴For behold, ^cthe kings assembled,

They passed by together.

⁵They saw it, and so they marveled;

They were troubled, they hastened away.

⁶Fear ^dtook hold of them there,

And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

⁷As when You break the ^eships of Tarshish

With an east wind.

⁸As we have heard,

So we have seen

In the city of the Lord of hosts,

In the city of our God:

God will ^festablish it forever.

Selah

⁹We have thought, O God, on ^gYour lovingkindness,

In the midst of Your temple.

¹⁰According to ^hYour name, O God,

So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;

Your right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Let Mount Zion rejoice,

Let the daughters of Judah be glad,

Because of Your judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion,

And go all around her.

Count her towers;

¹³Mark well her bulwarks;

Consider her palaces;

That you may ⁱtell it to the generation following.

¹⁴For this is God,

Our God forever and ever;

^jHe will be our guide

²Even to death.

Psalm 49

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

¹Hear this, all peoples; Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

²Both low and high,

Rich and poor together.

³My mouth shall speak wisdom,

And the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.

⁴I will incline my ear to a proverb;

I will disclose my ¹dark saying on the harp.

⁵Why should I fear in the days of evil,

When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

⁶Those who ^atrust in their wealth

And boast in the multitude of their riches,

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

Nor ^bgive to God a ransom for him—

⁸For ^cthe redemption of their souls is costly,

And it shall cease forever—

⁹That he should continue to live eternally,

And ^dnot ²see the Pit.

¹⁰For he sees wise men die;

Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,

And leave their wealth to others.

¹¹³Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,

Their dwelling places to all generations;

They ^ecall their lands after their own names.

¹²Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not ⁴remain;

He is like the beasts that perish.

¹³This is the way of those who are ^ffoolish,

And of their posterity who approve their sayings.

Selah

¹⁴Like sheep they are laid in the grave;

Death shall feed on them;

^gThe upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;

^hAnd their beauty shall be consumed in ⁵the grave, far from their dwelling.

¹⁵But God ⁱwill redeem my soul from the power of ⁶the grave,

For He shall ^jreceive me.

Selah

¹⁶Do not be afraid when one becomes rich,

When the glory of his house is increased;

¹⁷For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;

His glory shall not descend after him.

¹⁸Though while he lives ^khe blesses himself

(For men will praise you when you do well for yourself),

¹⁹He shall go to the generation of his fathers;

They shall never see ^llight. ⁷

²⁰A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,

^mIs like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹The ^aMighty One, God the Lord,

Has spoken and called the earth

From the rising of the sun to its going down.

²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

^bGod will shine forth.

³Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;

^cA fire shall devour before Him,

And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

^4dHe shall call to the heavens from above,

And to the earth, that He may judge His people:

⁵“Gather ^eMy saints together to Me,

^fThose who have ¹made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

⁶Let the ^gheavens declare His righteousness,

For ^hGod Himself is Judge.

Selah

⁷“Hear, O My people, and I will speak,

O Israel, and I will testify against you;

ⁱI am God, your God!

^8jI will not ²rebuke you ^kfor your sacrifices

Or your burnt offerings,

Which are continually before Me.

^9lI will not take a bull from your house,

Nor goats out of your folds.

¹⁰For every beast of the forest is Mine,

And the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains,

And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

¹²“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;

^mFor the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

¹³ⁿWill I eat the flesh of bulls,

Or drink the blood of goats?

^14oOffer to God thanksgiving,

And ^ppay your vows to the Most High.

^15qCall upon Me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says:

“What right have you to declare My statutes,

Or take My covenant in your mouth,

^17rSeeing you hate instruction

And cast My words behind you?

¹⁸When you saw a thief, you ^sconsented ³with him,

And have been a ^tpartaker with adulterers.

¹⁹You give your mouth to evil,

And ^uyour tongue frames deceit.

²⁰You sit and speak against your brother;

You slander your own mother’s son.

²¹These things you have done, and I kept silent;

^vYou thought that I was altogether like you;

But I will rebuke you,

And ^wset them in order before your eyes.

²²“Now consider this, you who ^xforget God,

Lest I tear you in pieces,

And there be none to deliver:

²³Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;

And ^yto him who orders his conduct aright

I will show the salvation of God.”