Psalms 49:2 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 49:2

both low and high, rich and poor alike.

BSB

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ASV

Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

KJV

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms, On Psalm 49 (397)

Both rich and poor together are called to a single vocation and invited to a certain humility and equality. The rich are not to turn up their noses at the poor, and the poor are not to be jealous of the rich. One grace joins both together. The Lord, though he was rich, became poor, so as to be Savior of poor and rich alike.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Both low and high,.... Or "both the sons of Adam and the sons of men".

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Hear and give ear, Ps. lxii. Not only, "Hear, all you Israelites, and give ear all the inhabitants of Canaan," but, Hear, all you people, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the world; for this doctrine is not peculiar to those that are blessed with divine revelation, but even the light of nature witnesses to it.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גַּם־	gam-	both	H1571 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] children of	H1121 →
אָ֭דָם	'A.dom	humankind	H120 →
גַּם־	gam-	as well as	H1571 →
בְּנֵי־	be.nei-	[the] children of	H1121 →
אִ֑ישׁ	'Ish	man	H376 →
יַ֝֗חַד	Ya.chad	alike	H3162 →
עָשִׁ֥יר	'a.Shir	[the] rich	H6223 →
וְאֶבְיֽוֹן׃	ve.'ev.Yon	and [the] needy	H34 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
leads to
- Job 31:15
  Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
- 1 Samuel 2:7
  The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Proverbs 14:31
  Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Through
Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
leads to
- Psalms 39:5
  You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Isaiah 40:15
  Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
- Isaiah 40:17
  All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
Through
Job 34:19
who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 10:17
  For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
- James 2:5
  Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms