Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
PSALM 49 The wicked and the votaries of worldly pleasure often enjoy prosperity, while such as fear the Lord are exposed to affliction, and disposed to faint under the pressure of it. To moderate that pride which the one class is apt to feel in the midst of their success, and administer a check to the despondency of the other, the Psalmist shows what little...
Commenting on Psalm 49:1-20
In these four verses the poet prophet calls universal humanity to listen to his didactic hymn.
Commenting on Psalm 49:1
Hear this, all ye people. All men are concerned in the subject, it is of them, and therefore to them that the psalmist would speak. It is not a topic which men delight to consider, and therefore he who would instruct them must press them to give ear.