Psa Psalms, psalm Book of Psalms, psalm 48
Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.Psa 77:2; Mat 13:35
Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,Job 36:18; Psa 51:9; Pro 11:4
No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,1Jn 3:16
Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,Mat 16:26; Mrk 8:37; 1Pe 1:19
And shall still live unto the end.
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:Pro 11:4; Ecc 2:16; Ecc 6:2
And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.
And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.Ecc 3:19
This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
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.Isa 14:11; Rev 2:27
But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.
Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.
For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.Job 27:18
For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.Deu 29:19
He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.Ecc 3:19; Luk 12:20