PSALME 49. (Book 49)
A Prayer that we may despise perishing riches, and put our trust in God only.
O Heare ye this, all ye people: ponder it with your eares all ye that dwell in the world.
The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.
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2 High and low, rich and poore: one with a∣nother.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdome: and my heart shall muse of understanding.
4 I will encline mine eare to the parable: and shew my dark speech upon the harp.
5 Wherefore should I feare in the dayes of wickednesse: and when the wickednesse of my heels compasse me round about?
6 There be some that put their trust in their goods: and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.
7 But no man may deliver his brother: nor make an agreement to God for him.
8 For it cost more to redeem their souls: so that he must let that alone for ever.
9 Yea, though he live long: and see not the grave.
10 For he seeth that wise men also dye, and perish together: as well as the ignorant and foo∣lish, and leave their riches for other.
11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever: and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another, and call the lands after their own names.
12 Neverthelesse, man will not abide in ho∣nour: seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish, this is the way of them.
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13 This is their foolishnesse: and their po∣sterity praise their saying.
14 They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaw∣eth upon them, and the righteous shall have do∣mination over them in the morning: their beau∣ty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling.
15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell: for he shall receive me.
16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich: or if the glory of his house be increased.
17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth: neither shall his pomp follow him.
18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man: and so long as thou dost well unto thy selfe, men will speak good of thee.
19 He shall follow the generation of his fa∣thers: and shall never see light.
20 Man being in honour hath no understan∣ding: but is compared unto the beasts that pe∣rish.
The Prayer.
O Blessed Iesu, thou only Redeemer of soules, who by thy death and passion hast delive∣red us from the place of Hell, give us grace to put our whole trust in thee, and in the riches of
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thy mercy and loving kindnesse, alwaies remem∣bring our end, the vanity and shortnesse of our lives, the certainty of our departure: Teach us to despise the world and worldly things, and to lay our treasure up in heaven by charity and actions of religion, that while we live here, we may have our conversation in heaven, by love, by hope, and by desires, that when our beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of our earthly dwellings, we may be received into everlasting habitations, alwayes to enjoy thee, who livest and reignest eternall God world without end. Amen.