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Psalms 48
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1(49) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core. Hear these words, all you⌃ nations, listen, all you⌃ that dwell upon the earth:
1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
2both the sons of mean men, and sons of [great] men; the rich and poor [man] together.
2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
3My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall bring [forth] understanding.
3God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
4I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp.
4For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
5Therefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me.
5They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
6They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth—
6Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
7A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself,
7With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
8or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labor for ever,
8As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.
9and live to the end, [so] that he should not see corruption.
9We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
10When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.
10As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, [even] their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.
11Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.
12And man being in honor, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like to them.
12Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
13This their way is an offense to them: yet afterwards men will commend their sayings. Pause.
13Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
14They have laid [them] as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.
14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.