ASV - Psalms 48 to 51

Psalm 48

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain. ²Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, The city of the great King. ³God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge. ⁴For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together. ⁵They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hasted away. ⁶Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail. ⁷With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish. ⁸As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah ⁹We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple. ¹⁰As is thy name, O God, So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: Thy right hand is full of righteousness. ¹¹Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of thy judgments. ¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof; ¹³Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following. ¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.

Psalm 49 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, ²Both low and high, Rich and poor together. ³My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. ⁴I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. ⁵Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about? ⁶They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; ⁷None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him; ⁸(For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth for ever;) ⁹That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption. ¹⁰For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others. ¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. ¹²But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. ¹³This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah ¹⁴They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it. ¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah ¹⁶Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. ¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,) ¹⁹He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light. ²⁰Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 50 A Psalm of Asaph.

¹The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. ²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. ³Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him. ⁴He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people: ⁵Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. ⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. Selah ⁷Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God. ⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me. ⁹I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds. ¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. ¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. ¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. ¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High: ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. ¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth, ¹⁷Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee? ¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers. ¹⁹Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit. ²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. ²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. ²²Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver: ²³Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way aright Will I show the salvation of God.

Psalm 51 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

¹Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. ²Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. ³For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me. ⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest. ⁵Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me. ⁶Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom. ⁷Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ⁸Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. ⁹Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities. ¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. ¹¹Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy Spirit from me. ¹²Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit. ¹³Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee. ¹⁴Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. ¹⁵O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. ¹⁶For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering. ¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. ¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. ¹⁹Then will thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt-offering and in whole burnt-offering: Then will they offer bullocks upon thine altar.