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         <div class="label">49</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 49</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 49:1-20 is numbered 49:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this, all you peoples;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">listen, all who live in this world,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">both low and high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">rich and poor alike:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My mouth will speak words of wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will turn my ear to a proverb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">with the harp I will expound my riddle:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why should I fear when evil days come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">when wicked deceivers surround me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">those who trust in their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">and boast of their great riches?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one can redeem the life of another</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">or give to God a ransom for them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the ransom for a life is costly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">no payment is ever enough&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so that they should live on forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">and not see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For all can see that the wise die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">that the foolish and the senseless also perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">leaving their wealth to others.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Their tombs will remain their houses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">In their thoughts their houses will remain</span></span></span><span class="content"> forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">their dwellings for endless generations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">though they had</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">generations, / for they have</span></span></span><span class="content"> named lands after themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">People, despite their wealth, do not endure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">they are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">and of their followers, who approve their sayings.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:13 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are like sheep and are destined to die;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">death will be their shepherd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">(but the upright will prevail over them in the morning).</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">Their forms will decay in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">far from their princely mansions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">he will surely take me to himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not be overawed when others grow rich,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">when the splendor of their houses increases;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">for they will take nothing with them when they die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">their splendor will not descend with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Though while they live they count themselves blessed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">and people praise you when you prosper&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">they will join those who have gone before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">who will never again see the light of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">People who have wealth but lack understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="content">are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 50</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">speaks and summons the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">from the rising of the sun to where it sets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From Zion, perfect in beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">God shines forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God comes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and will not be silent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">a fire devours before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and around him a tempest rages.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He summons the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">and the earth, that he may judge his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gather to me this consecrated people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">for he is a God of justice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">for God himself is judge</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, my people, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I will testify against you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I am God, your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have no need of a bull from your stall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">or of goats from your pens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for every animal of the forest is mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">and the cattle on a thousand hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know every bird in the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">and the insects in the fields are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I were hungry I would not tell you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">for the world is mine, and all that is in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I eat the flesh of bulls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">or drink the blood of goats?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice thank offerings to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">fulfill your vows to the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and call on me in the day of trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">I will deliver you, and you will honor me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But to the wicked person, God says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What right have you to recite my laws</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">or take my covenant on your lips?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You hate my instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">and cast my words behind you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When you see a thief, you join with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">you throw in your lot with adulterers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You use your mouth for evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">and harness your tongue to deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You sit and testify against your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">and slander your own mother&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When you did these things and I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">you thought I was exactly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">thought the &#8216;<span class="nd">I am</span>&#8217; was</span></span></span><span class="content"> like you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">But I now arraign you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">and set my accusations before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider this, you who forget God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="content">and to the blameless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will show my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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