Psalm 49: Wisdom For A World Obsessed With Wealth

Psalm 49: Wisdom For A World Obsessed With Wealth

Psalm 49:1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

Psalm 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

Psalm 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

Psalm 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Psalm 49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

Psalm 49:6 They that trust in the wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Psalm 49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth forever:)

Psalm 49:9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.

Psalm 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 49:11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Psalm 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approves their sayings. Selah.

Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Psalm 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power ofthe grave: for he shall receive me. Selah

Psalm 49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Psalm 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thy self.

Psalm 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Psalm 49:20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 50: God’s Ownership Of All Creation

Psalm 50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Psalm 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Psalm 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Psalm 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Psalm 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Psalm 50:7 Hear, O my people and I will speak; O Israel and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Psalm 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

Psalm 50:10 For every beast ofthe forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Psalm 50:11 Know all the fowls ofthe mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

Psalm 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Psalm 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the highest:

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

Psalm 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Psalm 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consented with him and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Psalm 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Psalm 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Psalm 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God

Psalm 51: Healing And Hope Through God’s Mercy

Psalm 51:1 Have mercy upon me, 0 God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin

Psalm 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Psalm 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part, thou shalt make me know wisdom.

Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalm 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities.

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Psalm 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Psalm 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Psalm 51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Psalm 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Psalm 51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm 51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.