Psalms 48
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
1Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
2Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
2Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
3God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
3All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
4For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.
4My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
5They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.
5I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
6Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
6Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
7They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,
8As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
8No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
9Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
9Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
10Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
10And shall still live unto the end.
11Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
11He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:
12March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
12And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.
13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
13And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.
14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
14This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
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15They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.
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16But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.
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17Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.
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18For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
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19For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.
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20He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
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21Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.
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