Psalm 48 Douay Rheims from Today's Breviary

Ant. My mouth shall speak * wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding. Psalm 48(2-13) [5]

Hear these things, all ye nations: * give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: * both rich and poor together.

My mouth shall speak wisdom: * and the meditation of my heart understanding

I will incline my ear to a parable; * I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

Why shall I fear in the evil day? * the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.

They that trust in their own strength, * and glory in the multitude of their riches,

No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: * he shall not give to God his ransom,

Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: * and shall labour for ever, and shall still live unto the end.

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: * and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever.

Their dwelling places to all generations: * they have called their lands by their names.

And man when he was in honour did not understand; * he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them. ℣. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

℟. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Ant. My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

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Ant. Be not thou afraid * the things which made him rich, or his glory shall not descend with him to the sepulchre. Psalm 48(14-21)

This way of theirs is a stumbling block to them: * and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

They are laid in hell like sheep: * death shall feed upon them.

And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; * and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, * when he shall receive me.

Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, * and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; * nor shall his glory descend with him.

For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: * and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: * and he shall never see light.

Man when he was in honour did not understand: * he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them. ℣. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

℟. As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Ant. Be not thou afraid the things which made him rich, or his glory shall not descend with him to the sepulchre.