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I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

 

⁶Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,

When the iniquity of my supplanters compasseth me about,

⁷Of them that trust in their wealth,

And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches?

⁸No man can by any means redeem his brother,

Nor give to God a ransom for him—

⁹For too costly is the redemption of their soul,

And must be let alone for ever—

¹⁰That he should still live alway,

That he should not see the pit.

¹¹For he seeth that wise men die,

The fool and the brutish together perish,

And leave their wealth to others.

¹²Their 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.

¹³But man abideth not in honour;

He is like the beasts that perish.

 

¹⁴This is the way of them that are foolish,

And of those who after them approve their sayings. Selah

¹⁵Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world;

Death shall be their shepherd;

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

And their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away,

That there be no habitation for it.

¹⁶But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether-world;

For He shall receive me. Selah

¹⁷Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich,

When the wealth of his house is increased;

¹⁸For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away;

His wealth shall not descend after him.

¹⁹Though while he lived he blessed his soul:

'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';

²⁰It shall go to the generation of his fathers;

They shall never see the light.

²¹Man that is in honour understandeth not;

He is like the beasts that perish.

50 A Psalm of Asaph.

God, God, the Lord, 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 round about Him it stormeth mightily.

⁴He calleth to the heavens above,

And to the earth, that He may judge His people:

⁵'Gather My saints together unto Me;

Those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.'

⁶And the heavens declare His righteousness;

For God, He is judge. Selah

⁷'Hear, O My people, and I will speak;

O Israel, and I will testify against thee:

God, thy God, am I.

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