Psalm 49^[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

³ and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings^(A) of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster^(B) on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.^{(C) 4} For they have forsaken^(D) me and made this a place of foreign gods^(E); they have burned incense^(F) in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^(G)