| Chapter 48 |
1 | Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
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2 | Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
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3 | All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
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4 | My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
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5 | I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
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6 | Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
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7 | They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,
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8 | No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
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9 | Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
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10 | and shall still live unto the end.
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11 | He 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:
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12 | and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.
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13 | And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.
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14 | This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
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15 | They 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.
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16 | But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.
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17 | Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.
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18 | For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
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19 | For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.
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20 | He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
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21 | Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.
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