Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the earth:
Sing ye praises with understanding.

God reigneth over the heathen:

God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
The princes of the people are gathered together,
Even the people of the God of Abraham:
For the shields of the earth belong unto God:
He is greatly exalted.

XLVIII

A Song and Psalm

for the sons of Korah

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth,
is mount Zion,

On the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

They saw it, and so they marvelled;

They were troubled, and hasted away.

Fear took hold upon them there,

And pain, as of a woman in travail.

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east

wind.

As we have heard, so have we seen

In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God:

God will establish it for ever.

Selah.

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple.

According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto

the ends of the earth:

Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Let mount Zion rejoice,

Let the daughters of Judah be glad,

Because of thy judgments.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

That ye may

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces;
tell it to the generation following.
For this God is our God for ever and ever:
He will be our guide even unto death.

XLIX

To the chief Musician

A Psalm for the sons of Korah

Hear this, all ye people;

Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

Both low and high,

Rich and poor, together.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom;

And the meditation of my heart shall be of under

standing.

I will incline mine ear to a parable:

I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,

When the iniquity of my heels shall compass me

about?

They that trust in their wealth,

And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him:

(For the redemption of their soul is precious,

And it ceaseth for ever:)

That he should still live for ever,

And not see corruption.

For he seeth that wise men die,

Likewise the fool and the brutish person perish,

And leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall con

tinue for ever,

And their dwelling places to all generations;
They call their lands after their own names.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not:

He is like the beasts that perish.

This their way is their folly:

Yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
Death shall feed on them;

And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;

And their beauty shall consume in the grave from

their dwelling.

But God will redeem my soul from the power

the

grave:

For he shall receive me.

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,

When the glory of his house is increased;

of

Selah.

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: His glory shall not descend after him.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul:

And men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see light.

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not,

Is like the beasts that perish.

L

A Psalm of Asaph

The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and

called the earth

From the rising of the sun unto the going down

thereof.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

God hath shined.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence:

A fire shall devour before him,

And it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
He shall call to the heavens from above,

And to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Gather my saints together unto me;

Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: For God is judge himself.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak;

O Israel, and I will testify against thee:
I am God, even thy God.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices

Selah.

Or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

I will take no bullock out of thy house,

Nor he goats out of thy folds.

For every beast of the forest is mine,
And the cattle upon a thousand hills.
I know all the fowls of the mountains:
And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:

For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls,