47:10. We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple. 47:11. According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise kunto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice. 47:12. Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord. 47:13. Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers. 47:14. Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation. 47:15. For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore. Psalms Chapter 48 Audite haec, omnes gentes. The folly of worldlings, who live on in sin, without thinking of death or hell. 48:1. Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. 48:2. Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. 48:3. All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together. 48:4. My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding. 48:5. I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery. 48:6. Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me. The iniquity of my heel... That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways: or the iniquity of my pride, with which as with the heel, I have spurned and kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel, that is, the iniquity in which I shall be found in death. The meaning of this verse is, Why should I now indulge those passions and sinful affections, or commit now those sins, which will cause me so much fear and anguish in the evil day; when the sorrows of death shall compass me, and the perils of hell shall find me? 48:7. They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, They that trust, etc... As much as to say, let them fear that trust in their strength or riches: for they have great reason to fear: seeing no brother or other man, how much a friend soever, can by any price or labour rescue them from death. 48:8. No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom, 48:9. Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever, And shall labour for ever, etc... This seems to be a continuation of the foregoing sentence: as much as to say no man can by any price or ransom prolong his life, that so he may still continue to labour here, and live to the end of the world. Others understand it of the eternal sorrows, and dying life of hell, which is the dreadful consequence of dying in sin. 48:10. And shall still live unto the end. 48:11. He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers: