Psalms 49:1
“To the chief musician, by the sons of Korach, a psalm.” (49:2) Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the perishable world:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
In Context
2(49:3) Both the sons of the low and the sons of the high, rich and needy, altogether.
Cross References
Psalms 33:8Let all the earth fear the Lord: of him stand in awe all the inhabitants of the world.
Psalms 42:1BOOK SECOND: “To the chief musician, a Maskil, for the sons of Korach.” (42:2) As a hart panteth after brooks of water, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psalms 48:1“A song and psalm by the sons of Korach.” (48:2) Great is the Lord, and highly praised in the city of our God, [in] his holy mountain.
Psalms 78:1“A Maskil of Assaph.” Give ear, O my people, to my instruction: incline thy ear to the words of my mouth.
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
Jeremiah 25:2Which Jeremiah the prophet spoke concerning all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 49:1
This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; and it is our duty, in singing psalms, to teach and admonish ourselves and one another. The scope and design of this discourse is to convince the men of this world of their sin and folly in setting their hearts upon the things of this world, and so to persuade them to seek the things of a better world; as also to comfort the people of God, in reference to their own troubles and… Read the whole commentary →