Psalms 49:15
\49:14\Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
In Context
16\49:15\But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)
Cross References
Psalms 16:10For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
Psalms 56:13\56:12\I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise.
Psalms 86:13For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
Hosea 13:14I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
John 14:3And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
Revelation 5:9And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 49:7-15
The Vanity of Worldly Riches; The End of the Wicked. 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. 10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is, that… Read the whole commentary →