Hey everyone, this is Mary DeMuth, and this is Pray Every Day, where I have the joy and privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse. We are making our way through the Psalms right now, and I am delighting in it. It has been so much fun. It's very raw. It's very real. And I was surprised last time I read through the Psalms how many smite my enemy Psalms there are. But it's, you know, that gets at real life, doesn't it?

We do have people that drive us crazy. I surprised last time I read through the Psalms how many smite my enemy Psalms there are.

But it, you know, that gets at real life, doesn't it? We do have people that drive us crazy, and we do have frustrations in this life. But there's also lament psalms to help us to lament. There's songs of ascent. There are just songs that you would sing on your way. if you were a Jewish person on the way to Jerusalem

ascending up the hill to Jerusalem because it's a hike, hike and a half, really. And there's so

many different kinds of their songs of praise. And so I'm just excited to be able to experience

this alongside with you. Today I'm reading Psalm 49. And this is one of the songs of Cora. It's for the chief

musician. So again, these are songs that are to be sung. World English Bible says this.

Hear this, all you peoples, listen all you inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich and poor together.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom, my heart will utter understanding.

I will incline my ear to a proverb.

I will solve my riddle on the harp.

Why should I fear in the days of evil when iniquity at my heel surrounds me?

Those who trust in their wealth and boast in the multitude of their riches, none of them can by any

means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their life is costly.

No payment is ever enough that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption. For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the senseless perish,

and leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever and their

dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. But man, despite his

riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish. This is the destiny of those who are

foolish and of those who approve their sayings.

Selah.

They are appointed as a flock for shale.

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