Psalms 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 rick, 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.●