I know your number, and have absolute dominion over all, Isaias xxxvii. 28. (Calmet) --- Field. Ripe fruits. (St. Cyril) (Alexandrian) --- With God all things are present. (St. Augustine; Lombard, 1 dist. 35.; F.; Amama)
Verse Psalms 49:11. _THEIR INWARD THOUGHT_ IS, THAT _THEIR HOUSES_ SHALL CONTINUE _FOR EVER_] Thus, by interpolation, we have endeavoured to patch up a sense to this clause. Instead of קרבם _kirbam_,...
THEIR INWARD THOUGHT IS - Their secret expectation and feeling is that they have secured permanency for their wealth in their own families, though they themselves may pass away. The essential thought...
Psalms 49 Retrospects and Meditations _ 1. Hear this, all ye peoples! (Psalms 49:1)_ 2. His message of retrospect and encouragement (Psalms 49:5) If such is the outcome and the goal of the purpose...
XLIX. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE RIGHTEOUS. The poet takes a popular proverb for his theme. This proverb recurs as a refrain in Psalms 49:12 and Psalms 49:20, and it probably stood originally after Psalms...
The limits to the power and the possession of wealth....
_Their inward_thought is &c. If they do reflect that they must die, they comfort themselves with the delusion that their houses will last for ever, and their names be perpetuated in the names of their...
THEIR INWARD THOUGHT, &C.— _Their sepulchre is their dwelling for ever; their abode to all generations: they put their names upon heaps of earth._ So the LXX read, which seems to give the easier and m...
PSALMS 49 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Death and Redemption: Oppressed Saints Comforted and Oppressors Rebuked. ANALYSIS Startta I, Psalms 49:1-6, An Introduction, consisting of the Proem and the Problem. Sta...
_FOR HE SEETH THAT WISE MEN DIE, LIKEWISE THE FOOL AND THE BRUTISH PERSON PERISH, AND LEAVE THEIR WEALTH TO OTHERS._ -The universality of death might show the ungodly rich man that God may call him a...
49:11 names. (g-24) Or 'their names are proclaimed in the lands.'...
There is little to fix the date of this Ps. The writer moralises, in the fashion of the book of Proverbs, on the vanity of wealth and honour apart from understanding. The rich man cannot deliver his f...
LXX and other versions imply a slight change of reading which gives a better sense: 'Graves are their houses for ever, the dwelling-places for all generations of those who called their lands after the...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
THEIR INWARD THOUGHT IS, THAT THEIR HOUSES SHALL CONTINUE FOR EVER. — These eleven words represent three in the Hebrew, and, as the text stands, give its sense, which is intelligible and consistent:...
_[Psalms 49:12]_ קִרְבָּ֤ם בָּתֵּ֨ימֹו ׀ לְֽ עֹולָ֗ם מִ֭שְׁכְּנֹתָם
Psalms 49:1 THIS psalm touches the high-water mark of Old Testament faith in a future life; and in that respect, as well as in its application of that faith to alleviate the mystery of present inequal...
THE FOLLY OF TRUSTING IN RICHES Psalms 49:1 Here is a proclamation worthy of the hearing of all the world. The psalmist is listening to voices unheard by ordinary ears. Be sure to listen to God's voi...
This is the song of a principle, and the psalmist commences by calling peoples of all castes and classes to give attention. It denies the power of material wealth, and a5rms that of uprightness. There...
This is a sad, but too true picture of unawakened, careless Christless sinners. How poor, and even like senseless animals for slaughter, is their life. How fearful their end!...
Psalms 49 is a moral conclusion for all, founded on these judgments of God. Wealth, elevation, all that is exalted in man, is nothing. Man expects to endure, gives his own name to his lands, blesses h...
THEIR INWARD THOUGHT [IS, THAT] THEIR HOUSES [SHALL CONTINUE] FOR EVER,.... This is the thought of their hearts, what they secretly imagine, and conclude within themselves; either that their families,...
Their 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. Ver. 11. _Their inward thought i...
_Their inward thought_ Which they are ashamed to express, but which is yet their secret hope; _is, that their houses_ Either their families, or rather their mansion-houses, as it is explained in the n...
Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever and their dwelling-places to all generations, not subject to misfortune and destruction, so that one generation after the other may pas...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GOODS. To the chief musician, for use in liturgical worship, a psalm for the sons of Korah, a hymn of instruction and consolation written by a member of the family of Korah,...
TO ALL GENERATIONS: _ Heb._ to generation and generation...
6-14 Here is a description of the spirit and way of worldly people. A man may have wealth, and may have his heart enlarged in love, thankfulness, and obedience, and may do good with it. Therefore it...
THEIR INWARD THOUGHT IS; though they are ashamed to express it, yet it is their secret opinion, and hope, and wish. THEIR HOUSES; either, 1. Their posterity, oft called men's _houses_ 2 SAMUEL 7:11, &...
Psalms 49:11 inner H7130 houses H1004 forever H5769 dwelling H4908 all H1755 generations H1755 call H7121 (H8804) l
MAN'S VAIN ATTEMPT TO PERPETUATE HIMSELF WILL BE IN VAIN WHATEVER HE DOES (PSALMS 49:11). Men do in their own ineffective way seek to perpetuate themselves. They think that they will live for ever in...
The chief musician here bids us not to fear the ungodly. However high they may be placed, they are but dying men, and when they die their hope shall perish with them. He gives a very graphic descripti...
CONTENTS: The despicable character of those who trust in their wealth. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There is no security in the possession and enjoyment of wealth, for money cannot buy the...
Psalms 49:1. _Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world._ The psalmist opens his song as a philosopher and a prophet, giving equal instruction to all mankind. Psalms 49:3. _M...
_Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: both low and high, rich and poor, together._ THE INEQUALITIES OF SOCIETY Impressive and instructive that scene in the wood of Sen...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 49:1. This is a wisdom psalm. In particular, it addresses the confusion that the faithful often feel when they encounter trouble even while unfaithful people seem to get alo...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 49:5 After presenting the puzzle (vv. Psalms 49:5), the song reminds all its singers that every single person has the same end, death (vv....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah_.” See Introduction to Psalms 42. Both the author of the psalm, and the occasion on which it was composed, are unk...
EXPOSITION THIS is a didactic poem, and resembles in some respects Psalms 37:1, and Psalms 73:1. It deals with the same problem—the contrast between the lot of the righteous man, whom the wicked perse...
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 understandin...
1 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 18:18; Acts 8:22; Ezekiel 38:10; Genesis 4:17
Thought — Tho' they are ashamed to express, yet it is their secret hope. Houses — Either their posterity, often called mens houses: or their mansion — houses, as it is explained in the next clause. Fo...