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Psalms 49

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1Hear this, all peoples; Listen, all inhabitants of the world, ✦ 2Both low and high, Rich and poor together. ✦ 3My mouth will speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart will be understanding. ✦ 4I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle on the harp. ✦ 5¶Why should I fear in days of adversity, When the injustice of those who betray me surrounds me, ✦ 6Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the abundance of their riches? ✦ 7No one can by any means redeem another Or give God a ransom for him— ✦ 8For the redemption of his soul is priceless, And he should cease imagining forever— ✦ 9That he might live on eternally, That he might not undergo decay. ✦ 10¶For he sees that even wise people die; The foolish and the stupid alike perish And leave their wealth to others. ✦ 11Their inner thought is that their houses are forever And their dwelling places to all generations; They have named their lands after their own names. ✦ 12But man in his splendor will not endure; He is like the animals that perish. ✦ 13¶This is the way of those who are foolish, And of those after them who approve their words. Selah ✦ 14Like sheep they sink down to Sheol; Death will be their shepherd; And the upright will rule over them in the morning, And their form shall be for Sheol to consume So that they have no lofty home. ✦ 15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah ✦ 16¶Do not be afraid when a person becomes rich, When the splendor of his house is increased; ✦ 17For when he dies, he will take nothing with him; His wealth will not descend after him. ✦ 18Though while he lives he congratulates himself— And though people praise you when you do well for yourself— ✦ 19He will go to the generation of his fathers; They will never see the light. ✦ 20Mankind in its splendor, yet without understanding, Is like the animals that perish. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Luke 12 ·7Rev 2 ·5Luke 16 ·4Ps 49 ·4Eccl 3 ·3Prov 22 ·3Ps 56 ·3Matt 13 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 49 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 49David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 49Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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