Psalms 49

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

  • 49:7 No one can ever buy back the life of another, or pay God the price for that person's life, 2
  • 49:12 Yet no one, however honored, stays for long; humans are no different from animals that die. 2
  • 49:1 Listen to this, all you nations; pay attention, everyone who lives in the world, 1
  • 49:4 I will listen closely to a proverb; to the music of the lyre I will lay open my riddle. 1
  • 49:6 people who rely on their money and brag about how rich they are? 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Digression II: all solid wisdom laid up in Christ cites Ps. xlix. 7

    …these things make an atonement? David doth positively, indeed, determine this business, Ps. xlix. 7, 8, “None of them” (of the best or richest of men) “can by any means redeem his brother…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 10 — The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New cites Psalm 49:6

    …them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling,” (Psalm 49:6, 7, 10–14). By this derision of the foolish for resting satisfied with the slippery and…

  3. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    December cites Psa 49:4

    …love-notes in these dark sayings, like those upon the harp, of which the Psalmist sings (Psa 49:4); the Voice that utters them is not harsh and strident, but tender and gentle. They are…

  4. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield · George Whitefield

    The Care of the Soul Urged as the One Thing Needful cites Psalm 49:1

    …hear, all ye inhabitants of the earth, both high and low, rich and poor, together,” Psalm 49:1, 2. For it is the concern of all, from the king that sits upon the throne, to the servant…

  5. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Covenant of Works cites Psa 49:12

    …did not long continue; for ‘man being in honour abideth not,’ lodged not for a night. Psa 49:12. His teeth watered at the apple, and ever since it has made our eyes water. (3.) Learn…

  6. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Adam's Sin cites Psalm 49:12

    …and had such delicious fruit growing upon it. (3.) ‘Man being in honour, abideth not.’ Psalm 49:12. The Rabbis read it thus, ‘Adam being in honour, lodged not one night.’ The Hebrew word…

  7. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Our Sins! cites Psalm xlix. 7

    …soul. “None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.” (Psalm xlix. 7.) Thousands in every age have tried to cleanse themselves from their sins in the ways I…