Psalms 49:1
Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world:
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
In Context
2Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Cross References
Psalms 33:8Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psalms 42:1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
Psalms 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Psalms 78:1Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Jeremiah 25:2The which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto 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 →