Psalm 49 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

² and shall still live unto the end.

³ 0 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:

⁴ 1 and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

⁵ 2 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

⁶ 3 This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

⁷ 4 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.

⁸ 5 But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

⁹ 6 Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

¹⁰ 7 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

¹¹ 8 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

¹² 9 He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

¹³ 0 Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

¹⁴ A 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:

¹⁵ out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

¹⁶ God 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.

¹⁷ He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.

¹⁸ Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

¹⁹ And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

²⁰ Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.