the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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New Living Translation
Psalms 49:2
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Both low and high, rich and poor together.
Both sons of man and sons of a man together, rich and poor.
Listen, both great and small, rich and poor together.
Pay attention, all you people, both rich and poor!
Both low and high, rich and poor together.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together:
both low and high, rich and poor together!
Alle the sones of erthe and the sones of men; togidere the riche man and the pore in to oon.
both low and high, rich and poor alike.
Listen, no matter who you are, rich or poor.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
Hear this, all you peoples! Listen, everyone living on earth,
Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.
Everyone, rich and poor, listen to me.
Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
Both low, and high, rich and poore together.
both small and great, rich and poor together.
both low and high, rich and poor together.
As well lowe as hie, both rich and poore.
Children of earth and sons of men, rich and poor together.
great and small alike, rich and poor together.
Both sons of the low, And sons of the high, - Together both rich and needy: -
(48-3) All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
both low and high, rich and poor together!
As well lowe as high: riche and poore, one with another.
both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together.
both low and high,rich and poor together.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
both low and high, rich and poor together.
both sons of mankind and sons of man together, rich and poor:
Both low and high, together rich and needy.
Hye & lowe, riche & poore, one wt another.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
Both low and high,Rich and poor together.
Contextual Overview
For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah.
Listen to this, all you people! Pay attention, everyone in the world! 2 High and low, rich and poor—listen! 3 For my words are wise, and my thoughts are filled with insight. 4 I listen carefully to many proverbs and solve riddles with inspiration from a harp. 5 Why should I fear when trouble comes, when enemies surround me?Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 62:9, 1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:8, Job 34:19, Proverbs 22:2, Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5, James 1:9-11, James 2:1-7, Revelation 6:15-17
Reciprocal: Judges 5:3 - O ye kings 2 Chronicles 15:2 - Hear ye me Job 3:19 - The small Psalms 50:1 - called Isaiah 2:9 - the mean Isaiah 18:3 - All ye Isaiah 32:9 - give ear Isaiah 34:1 - Come Isaiah 43:9 - all the Jeremiah 17:20 - General Jeremiah 25:2 - General Micah 1:2 - hearken Zechariah 9:13 - and raised Mark 7:14 - when Revelation 13:16 - rich
Cross-References
Then Jacob called together all his sons and said, "Gather around me, and I will tell you what will happen to each of you in the days to come.
But you are as unruly as a flood, and you will be first no longer. For you went to bed with my wife; you defiled my marriage couch.
"Judah, your brothers will praise you. You will grasp your enemies by the neck. All your relatives will bow before you.
Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the Lord .
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel.
My son, obey your father's commands, and don't neglect your mother's instruction.
Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands.
So listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to my words.
"And so, my children, listen to me, for all who follow my ways are joyful.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Both low and high,.... Or "both the sons of Adam and the sons of men". By the sons of "Adam" are meant the multitude of the people, as Ben Melech explains it; the common people, the meaner sort, the base things of this world; and such are they, generally speaking, who are called by grace under the Gospel dispensation: and by "the sons of men" are meant the princes, nobles, and great men of the earth; men of high birth and illustrious extraction: so Adam is rendered, "the mean man", and "Ish", the word here used, "the great man", in Isaiah 2:9. And though not many, yet some of this sort are called by grace; and all of them have a peculiar concern in many things spoken of in this psalm; see
Psalms 49:12;
rich and poor together: these are called upon to hearken to what is after said, that the one may not be elated with and trust in their riches, and that the other may not be dejected on account of their poverty; and seeing both must die, and meet together at the judgment day; and inasmuch as the Gospel is preached to one as to another; and for the most part the poor hear it, receive it, and are called by it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Both low and high - Those alike of humble and those of exalted rank, for it pertains equally to all. On the meaning of the “terms” employed here, see the notes at Isaiah 2:9. These truths pertained to the “low;” that is, to those of humble rank, as teaching them not to envy the rich, and not to fear their power; and they pertained to those of exalted rank, as teaching them not to trust in their riches, and not to suppose that they could permanently possess and enjoy them.
Rich and poor together - As equally interested in these truths; that is, What the psalmist was about to say was adapted to impart useful lessons to both classes. Both needed instruction on the subject; and the same class of truths was adapted to furnish that instruction. The class of truths referred to was derived from the powerlessness of wealth in regard to the things of most importance to man, and from the fact that all which a man can gain must soon be left: teaching those of one class that they should not set their heart on wealth, and should not pride themselves on possessing it, and teaching the other class that they should not envy or fear the possessor of riches.
