Psalm 46-50

Complete Jewish Bible

46 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. On ‘alamot [high-pitched musical instruments?]. A song:

²⁽¹⁾God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
³⁽²⁾Therefore we are unafraid,
even if the earth gives way,
even if the mountains tumble
into the depths of the sea,
⁴⁽³⁾even if its waters rage and foam,
and mountains shake at its turbulence. (Selah)

⁵⁽⁴⁾There is a river whose streams
gladden the city of God,
the holy habitation of ‘Elyon —
⁶⁽⁵⁾God is in the city.
It will not be moved —
when daybreak comes, God will help it.
⁷⁽⁶⁾Nations were in turmoil,
kingdoms were moved;
his voice thundered forth,
and the earth melted away.

⁸⁽⁷⁾Adonai-Tzva’ot is with us,
our fortress, the God of Ya‘akov. (Selah)
⁹⁽⁸⁾Come and see the works of Adonai,
the astounding deeds he has done on the earth.
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾To the ends of the earth he makes wars cease —
he breaks the bow, snaps the spear,
burns the shields in the fire.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾“Desist, and learn that I am God,
supreme over the nations,
supreme over the earth.”

¹²⁽¹¹⁾Adonai-Tzva’ot is with us,
our fortress, the God of Ya‘akov. (Selah)

47 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. A psalm of the descendants of Korach:

²⁽¹⁾Clap your hands, all you peoples!
Shout to God with cries of joy!
³⁽²⁾For Adonai ‘Elyon is awesome,
a great king over all the earth.
⁴⁽³⁾He makes peoples subject to us,
puts nations under our feet.
⁵⁽⁴⁾He chooses our heritage for us,
the pride of Ya‘akov, whom he loves. (Selah)
⁶⁽⁵⁾God goes up to shouts of acclaim,
Adonai to a blast on the shofar.
⁷⁽⁶⁾Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our king, sing praises!
⁸⁽⁷⁾For God is king of all the earth;
sing praises in a maskil.
⁹⁽⁸⁾God rules the nations;
God sits on his holy throne.
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾The leaders of the people gather together,
the people of the God of Avraham;
for the rulers of the earth belong to God,
who is exalted on high.

48 ⁽⁰⁾A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korach:

²⁽¹⁾Great is Adonai
and greatly to be praised,
in the city of our God,
his holy mountain,
³⁽²⁾beautiful in its elevation,
the joy of all the earth,
Mount Tziyon, in the far north,
the city of the great king.
⁴⁽³⁾In its citadels God
has been revealed as a strong defense.
⁵⁽⁴⁾For the kings met by agreement;
together they advanced.
⁶⁽⁵⁾They saw and were filled with consternation;
terrified, they took to flight.
⁷⁽⁶⁾Trembling took hold of them,
pains like those of a woman in labor,
⁸⁽⁷⁾as when the wind out of the east
wrecks the “Tarshish” ships.
⁹⁽⁸⁾We heard it, and now we see for ourselves
in the city of Adonai-Tzva’ot,
in the city of our God.
May God establish it forever. (Selah)

¹⁰⁽⁹⁾God, within your temple
we meditate on your grace.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾God, your praise, like your name,
extends to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
¹²⁽¹¹⁾Let Mount Tziyon rejoice,
let the daughters of Y’hudah be glad,
because of your judgment [on the enemy].

¹³⁽¹²⁾Walk through Tziyon, go all around it;
count how many towers it has.
¹⁴⁽¹³⁾Note its ramparts, pass through its citadels,
so that you can tell generations to come
¹⁵⁽¹⁴⁾that such is God, our God forever;
he will guide us eternally.

49 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. A psalm of the descendants of Korach:

²⁽¹⁾Hear this, all you peoples!
Listen, everyone living on earth,
³⁽²⁾regardless of whether low or high,
regardless of whether rich or poor!
⁴⁽³⁾My mouth is about to speak wisdom;
my heart’s deepest thoughts will give understanding.
⁵⁽⁴⁾I will listen with care to [God’s] parable,
I will set my enigma to the music of the lyre.

⁶⁽⁵⁾Why should I fear when the days bring trouble,
when the evil of my pursuers surrounds me,
⁷⁽⁶⁾the evil of those who rely on their wealth
and boast how rich they are?
⁸⁽⁷⁾No one can ever redeem his brother
or give God a ransom for him ,
⁹⁽⁸⁾because the price for him is too high
(leave the idea completely alone!)
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾to have him live on eternally
and never see the pit.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾For he can see that wise men will die,
likewise the fool and the brute will perish
and leave their wealth to others.
¹²⁽¹¹⁾They think their homes will last forever,
their dwellings through all generations;
they give their own names to their estates.
¹³⁽¹²⁾But people, even rich ones, will live only briefly;
then, like animals, they will die.
¹⁴⁽¹³⁾This is the manner of life of the foolish
and those who come after, approving their words. (Selah)
¹⁵⁽¹⁴⁾Like sheep, they are destined for Sh’ol;
death will be their shepherd.
The upright will rule them in the morning;
and their forms will waste away in Sh’ol,
until they need no dwelling.
¹⁶⁽¹⁵⁾But God will redeem me from Sh’ol’s control,
because he will receive me. (Selah)

¹⁷⁽¹⁶⁾Don’t be afraid when someone gets rich,
when the wealth of his family grows.
¹⁸⁽¹⁷⁾For when he dies, he won’t take it with him;
his wealth will not go down after him.
¹⁹⁽¹⁸⁾True, while he lived, he thought himself happy —
people praise you when you do well for yourself —
²⁰⁽¹⁹⁾but he will join his ancestors’ generations
and never again see light.
²¹⁽²⁰⁾People, even rich ones, can fail to grasp
that, like animals, they will die.

50 ⁽⁰⁾A psalm of Asaf:

⁽¹⁾The Mighty One, God, Adonai, is speaking,
summoning the world from east to west.
²Out of Tziyon, the perfection of beauty,
God is shining forth.
³Our God is coming and not staying silent.
With a fire devouring ahead of him
and a great storm raging around him,
⁴he calls to the heavens above and to earth,
in order to judge his people.
⁵“Gather to me my faithful,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
for God himself is judge. (Selah)

⁷“Listen, my people, I am speaking:
Isra’el, I am testifying against you,
I, God, your God.
⁸I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are always before me.
⁹I have no need for a bull from your farm
or for male goats from your pens;
¹⁰for all forest creatures are mine already,
as are the animals on a thousand hills;
¹¹I know all the birds in the mountains;
whatever moves in the fields is mine.
¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
for the world is mine, and everything in it.
¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God,
pay your vows to the Most High,
¹⁵and call on me when you are in trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says:
“What right do you have to proclaim my laws
or take my covenant on your lips,
¹⁷when you so hate to receive instruction
and fling my words behind you?
¹⁸When you see a thief, you join up with him,
you throw in your lot with adulterers,
¹⁹you give your mouth free rein for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit;
²⁰you sit and speak against your kinsman,
you slander your own mother’s son.
²¹When you do such things, should I stay silent?
You may have thought I was just like you;
but I will rebuke and indict you to your face.
²²Consider this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to save you.

²³“Whoever offers thanksgiving
as his sacrifice honors me;
and to him who goes the right way
I will show the salvation of God.”

Tehillim 46-50

Orthodox Jewish Bible

46 (For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. Al- alamot [after the manner of virgins, i.e., in the treble]. Shir.) Elohim is our refuge and strength, a very present help in tzoros.

²⁽³⁾Therefore we will not fear, though eretz be shaken, and though the harim (mountains) fall into the lev yamim (heart of the seas);

³⁽⁴⁾Though the mayim thereof roar and be troubled, though the harim shake with the surging thereof. Selah.

⁴⁽⁵⁾There is a nahar (river), the streams whereof shall make glad the Ir Elohim, the Kedosh Mishkenei Elyon (the holy dwelling of the Most High).

⁵⁽⁶⁾Elohim is in the midst of it [i.e., the Ir Elohim}; it shall not be moved; Elohim shall help it at early boker.

⁶⁽⁷⁾The Goyim raged, the kingdoms totter; He uttered His voice, eretz melted.

⁷⁽⁸⁾Hashem Tzva’os is with us; Elohei Ya’akov is our stronghold. Selah.

⁸⁽⁹⁾Come, behold the works of Hashem, what desolations He hath made in ha’aretz.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾He maketh milchamot to cease unto the end of ha’aretz; He breaketh the keshet (bow), and cutteth the khanit (spear); He burneth the chariots in the eish.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾Be still, and know that I am Elohim: I will be exalted among the Goyim, I will be exalted in ha’aretz.

¹¹⁽¹²⁾Hashem Tzva’os is with us; Elohei Ya’akov is our stronghold. Selah.

47 (For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. A Mizmor.) O clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto Elohim with the voice of joy.

²⁽³⁾For Hashem Elyon is awesome; He is Melech Gadol over kol ha’aretz.

³⁽⁴⁾He shall subdue the peoples under us, and the nations under our raglayim.

⁴⁽⁵⁾He shall choose nachalateinu for us, the ga’on Ya’akov (pride, glory of Jacob) whom He loves. Selah.

⁵⁽⁶⁾Elohim is ascended with a shout of joy, Hashem with the sound of a shofar.

⁶⁽⁷⁾Sing praises to Elohim, sing praises; sing praises unto Malkeinu, sing praises.

⁷⁽⁸⁾For Melech kol ha’aretz is He; sing ye praises with understanding.

⁸⁽⁹⁾Elohim reigneth over the Goyim; Elohim sitteth upon the Kisse Kadsho.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾The princes of the nations are gathered together, even the Am Elohei Avraham; for the moginei Eretz (shields of the Earth) belong unto Elohim; He is greatly exalted.

48 (Shir. Mizmor. Of the Bnei Korach.) Gadol is Hashem, and greatly to be praised in the Ir Eloheinu, in His Har Kodesh.

²⁽³⁾Yafeh in its loftiness, the joy of kol ha’aretz, is Mt Tziyon, on the sides of the north, the City of Melech Rav.

³⁽⁴⁾Elohim is in her citadels, known as her fortress.

⁴⁽⁵⁾For, hinei, the melachim were assembled, they advanced together.

⁵⁽⁶⁾They saw, and ken (thus) they marvelled; they were troubled, and fled.

⁶⁽⁷⁾Trembling took hold upon them sham (there), and pain, as of a woman in labor.

⁷⁽⁸⁾Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

⁸⁽⁹⁾As we have heard, so have we seen in the Ir Hashem Tzvaos, in the Ir Eloheinu; Elohim will establish it ad olam. Selah.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾We meditate on Thy chesed, O Elohim, in the midst of Thy Heikhal.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾According to Thy Shem, O Elohim, so is Thy tehillah unto the ends of ha’aretz; Thy right hand is full of tzedek.

¹¹⁽¹²⁾Let Mt Tziyon rejoice, let the Banot Yehudah (Daughters of Judah) be glad, because of Thy mishpatim.

¹²⁽¹³⁾Walk about Tziyon, and go around her; count the towers thereof.

¹³⁽¹⁴⁾Mark ye well her ramparts, consider her citadels; that ye may tell it to the dor acharon.

¹⁴⁽¹⁵⁾For this Elohim is Eloheinu olam vaed; He will be our guide even unto death. [T.N. Notice v.8(9)-9(10) in Psa 49, which tells why Moshiach can not be a mere man, in which case he could not redeem another, or be Hashem’s Isa 53 redemption lamb or the Isa 53 sa’ir l’azazel kapporah.]

49 (For the one directing. A Mizmor for the Bnei Korach). Hear this, kol HaAmim; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the cheled (world, duration):

²⁽³⁾Bnei Adam and bnei ish, ashir (rich) and evyon (poor) alike,

³⁽⁴⁾My mouth shall speak chochmot; and the meditation of my lev tevunot (understanding).

⁴⁽⁵⁾I will incline mine ear to a mashal; I will disclose my dark saying upon the kinnor (harp).

⁵⁽⁶⁾Why should I fear in the days of rah, when the avon (iniquity) of my akev (supplanters, deceivers) surrounds me?

⁶⁽⁷⁾They that trust in their chayil (wealth), and boast themselves in the rov of their oshir (riches);

⁷⁽⁸⁾A brother cannot by any means redeem ish (man), nor give to Elohim a kofer (ransom) for him—

⁸⁽⁹⁾For the pidyon [ransom] of their nefesh is costly, and is forever beyond their power to pay—

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾That he should live on lanetzach, and not see shachat (corruption, decay, the pit [cf Psa16:10]).

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾For he seeth that chachamim die, likewise the kesil (foolish) and the ba’ar (brutish, senseless person, dolt) perish, and leave their chayil (wealth) to others.

¹¹⁽¹²⁾Their inward thought is, that their batim (houses) shall continue l’olam and their mishkenot (dwelling places) l’odor vador; though they call their lands by their shmot (names).

¹²⁽¹³⁾Nevertheless adam in his pomp endureth not; he is like the behemot (beasts) that perish.

¹³⁽¹⁴⁾This is their derech, kesel (folly, imprudent confidence) is theirs; and the fate after them of those who approve their words.

¹⁴⁽¹⁵⁾Like tzon they are destined for She’ol; mavet shall pasture them; and the yesharim (upright ones) shall have dominion over them in the boker; and their tzir (form) shall waste away to Sheol, so there is no dwelling place for it.

¹⁵⁽¹⁶⁾But Elohim will redeem my nefesh from the yad (hand, power) of Sheol; for He shall receive me. Selah.

¹⁶⁽¹⁷⁾Be not thou afraid when one is made an ish oishir, when the kavod of his bais is increased;

¹⁷⁽¹⁸⁾For in his mot (death), he shall carry nothing away; his kavod (glory, wealth) shall not descend after him.

¹⁸⁽¹⁹⁾Though his nefesh during his life yevarech (he blessed)—for they praise thee when thou doest well for thyself—

¹⁹⁽²⁰⁾He shall go to the dor (generation) of his avot; they shall never see ohr (light).

²⁰⁽²¹⁾Adam that is in his pomp, and understandeth not, is like the behemot (beasts) that perish.

50 (Mizmor of Asaph) El Elohim, even Hashem, hath spoken, and called Eretz from the mizrach shemesh (rising of sun) unto the going down thereof.

²Out of Tziyon, the perfection of yofi, Elohim shineth forth.

³Eloheinu shall come, and shall not keep silent; an eish shall devour before Him, and it shall be tempestuous me’od round about Him.

⁴He shall summon Shomayim from above, and ha’aretz, that He may judge His people.

⁵Gather My chasidim together unto Me; those that have cut a Brit (covenant) with Me by zevach (blood sacrifice, T.N. cf Gn 4:5 on the true Jewish religion).

⁶And Shomayim shall declare His tzedek; for Elohim Shofet hu. Selah.

⁷Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Yisroel, and I will testify against thee; I am Elohim, even Eloheicha.

⁸I will not reprove thee for thy zevakhim. And thy olot are before Me tamid.

⁹I will accept no par (bull) from thy bais, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

¹⁰For every beast of the ya’ar (forest) is Mine, and the behemot upon a thousand hills.

¹¹I know kol oph (every bird) of the harim; and the animals of the wild are Mine.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the tevel is Mine, and the fulness thereof.

¹³Will I eat the basar of bulls, or drink the dahm of goats?

¹⁴Sacrifice unto Elohim todah; and pay thy nedarim (vows, pledges) unto Elyon;

¹⁵And call upon Me in the Yom Tzarah; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.

¹⁶But unto the rasha, Elohim saith, What right hast thou to declare My chukkot, or that thou shouldest take My Brit in thy mouth?

¹⁷Seeing thou hatest musar (correction), and casteth My devarim behind thee.

¹⁸When thou sawest a ganav (thief), then thou consentedst with him, and hast taken thy chelek (lot) with mena’afim (adulterers).

¹⁹Thou lettest loose thy mouth to ra’ah, and thy leshon frameth mirmah (deceit).

²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own ben immecha.

²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silent; thou thoughtest that I was altogether like thee; but I will reprove thee, and set the charge before thine eyes.

²²Now consider this, ye that forget Elo’ah (G-d), lest I tear you to pieces, and there be none to rescue.

²³Whoso offereth todah glorifieth Me; and to him that ordereth his derech aright will I show the Salvation of Elohim.

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Tehillim 46-50

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