Psalms

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

1Hear this, all you peoples.Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

2both low and high, rich and poor together.

3My mouth will speak words of wisdom.My heart will utter understanding.

4I will incline my ear to a proverb.I will solve my riddle on the harp.

5Why should I fear in the days of evil,when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

6Those who trust in their wealth,and boast in the multitude of their riches—

7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

8For the redemption of their life is costly,no payment is ever enough,

9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

10For he sees that wise men die;likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

11Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

12But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.He is like the animals that perish.

13This is the destiny of those who are foolish,and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.Death shall be their shepherd.The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,for he will receive me. Selah.

16Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,when the glory of his house is increased;

17for when he dies he will carry nothing away.His glory won’t descend after him.

18Though while he lived he blessed his soul—and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

20A man who has riches without understanding,is like the animals that perish.

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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.