Psalms 49:1
A Psalm for Asaph. 1 The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth 1 From the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
In Context
2Out of Zion comes the excellence of his beauty. 1
Cross References
Psalms 33:8The angel of the Lord will encamp round about them that fear him, and will deliver them. 1
Psalms 42:1A Psalm of David. 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: 1 Deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1
Psalms 48:1For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. 1
Psalms 78:1A Psalm for Asaph. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; 1 They have polluted thy holy temple; 1 They have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. 1
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against me.
Jeremiah 25:2which he spoke to all the people of Judah, and to 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 →