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Psalm 49

¹Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
²Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
³My mouth shall speak of 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 the iniquity of my heels shall compass 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 soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
⁹That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
¹⁰For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person 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.
¹²Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
¹³This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
¹⁴Like 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.
¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall 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 will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
¹⁹He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

8All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.
²And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
³And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
⁴Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
⁵Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
⁶Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
⁷For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
⁸A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
⁹A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
¹⁰When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

⁴⁷And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
⁴⁸Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
⁴⁹And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
⁵⁰And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.
⁵¹And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear.
⁵²Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
⁵³Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
⁵⁴But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
⁵⁵In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
⁵⁶But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.