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They may name their estates after themselves,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/psalms/49.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/49.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/49.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Their inward thought <i>is, that</i> their houses <i>shall continue</i> for ever, <i>and</i> their dwelling places to all generations; they call <i>their</i> lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/49.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Their inner thought <i>is that</i> their houses <i>will last</i> forever, Their dwelling places to all generations; They call <i>their</i> lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/49.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their inner thought is <i>that</i> their houses are forever <i>And</i> their dwelling places to all generations; They have named their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/49.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Their inner thought is that their houses are forever And their dwelling places to all generations; They have called their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/49.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Their inner thought is, <i>that</i> their houses are forever, <i>And</i> their dwelling places to all generations; They have called their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/49.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Their inner thought is <i>that</i> their houses are forever <i>And</i> their dwelling places from generation to generation; They have called <i>their</i> lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/49.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Their inward thought is that their houses will continue forever, And their dwelling places to all generations; They have named their lands after their own names [ignoring God].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/49.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their graves are their permanent homes, their dwellings from generation to generation, though they have named estates after themselves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/49.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their graves are their eternal homes, their homes from generation to generation, though they have named estates after themselves. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/49.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/49.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The grave will be their home forever and ever, although they once had land of their own. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/49.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/49.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Although they named their lands after themselves, their graves have become their homes for ages to come, their dwelling places throughout every generation. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/49.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Their graves are their homes forever; there they stay for all time, though they once had lands of their own. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/49.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Their inner thoughts are on their homes forever; their dwellings from generation to generation. They even name their lands after themselves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/49.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their graves are their eternal homes?their dwellings for endless generations?even though their lands were their namesakes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/49.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/49.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Their tombs are their homes forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/49.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/49.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/49.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Their heart [is that] their houses [are] for all time, "" Their dwelling places from generation to generation. They proclaimed their names over the lands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/49.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Their heart is: Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/49.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/49.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/49.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 48:12>And their sepulchers will be their houses forever, their tabernacles from generation to generation. They have called their names in their own lands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/49.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Their tombs are their homes forever, their dwellings through all generations, “They named countries after themselves” <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/49.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/49.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Their graves shall be their only habitations for ever, and their dwelling places throughout generations; their marked graves will be their only remembrance on earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/49.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Their graves are their houses for eternity, and their dwelling for a generation of generations, and they read the names in the ground.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/49.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/49.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, <i>even</i> their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/49-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=5780" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/49.htm">The Evanescence of Wealth</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7130.htm" title="7130: qir·bām (N-msc:: 3mp) -- Inward part, midst. From qarab; properly, the nearest part, i.e. The center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial.">Their graves</a> <a href="/hebrew/5769.htm" title="5769: lə·‘ō·w·lām (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Long duration, antiquity, futurity. ">are their eternal</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bāt·tê·mōw (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">homes—</a> <a href="/hebrew/4908.htm" title="4908: miš·kə·nō·ṯām (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Dwelling place, tabernacle. From shakan; a residence; specifically, the Tabernacle.">their dwellings</a> <a href="/hebrew/1755.htm" title="1755: lə·ḏōr (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Period, generation, dwelling. Or dor; from duwr; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. An age or generation; also a dwelling.">for endless generations</a> <a href="/hebrew/1755.htm" title="1755: wā·ḏōr (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Period, generation, dwelling. Or dor; from duwr; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. An age or generation; also a dwelling.">—</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ă·lê (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">even though</a> <a href="/hebrew/127.htm" title="127: ’ă·ḏā·mō·wṯ (N-fp) -- Ground, land. From 'adam; soil.">their lands</a> <a href="/hebrew/7121.htm" title="7121: qā·rə·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To call, proclaim, read. A primitive root; to call out to.">were their namesakes.</a> <a href="/hebrew/8034.htm" title="8034: ḇiš·mō·w·ṯām (Prep-b:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- A primitive word; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character."></a> </span><span class="reftext">12</span>But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/12-16.htm">Luke 12:16-21</a></span><br />Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance. / So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’ / Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/6-19.htm">Matthew 6:19-21</a></span><br />Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. / But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. / For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-18.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:18-19</a></span><br />I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. / And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-13.htm">James 4:13-14</a></span><br />Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” / You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/6-7.htm">1 Timothy 6:7-10</a></span><br />For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it. / But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. / Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/5-10.htm">Ecclesiastes 5:10-11</a></span><br />He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile. / When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/11-4.htm">Proverbs 11:4</a></span><br />Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/27-16.htm">Job 27:16-17</a></span><br />Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, / what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">1 John 2:15-17</a></span><br />Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. / For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. / The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/8-36.htm">Mark 8:36-37</a></span><br />What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? / Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-8.htm">Ecclesiastes 8:8</a></span><br />As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/16-19.htm">Luke 16:19-31</a></span><br />Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor. / And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores / and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/23-4.htm">Proverbs 23:4-5</a></span><br />Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. / When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-31.htm">1 Corinthians 7:31</a></span><br />and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-8.htm">Isaiah 5:8-10</a></span><br />Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land. / I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied. / For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/5-9.htm">Psalm 5:9</a></b></br> For <i>there is</i> no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part <i>is</i> very wickedness; their throat <i>is</i> an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/64-6.htm">Psalm 64:6</a></b></br> They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward <i>thought</i> of every one <i>of them</i>, and the heart, <i>is</i> deep.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/38-10.htm">Ezekiel 38:10</a></b></br> Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, <i>that</i> at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:</p><p class="hdg">all generations [heb.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/4-17.htm">Genesis 4:17</a></b></br> And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/15-12.htm">1 Samuel 15:12</a></b></br> And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/18-18.htm">2 Samuel 18:18</a></b></br> Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which <i>is</i> in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/49-8.htm">Age</a> <a href="/psalms/49-9.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/psalms/41-5.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/psalms/46-4.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/psalms/43-3.htm">Dwelling-Places</a> <a href="/job/39-6.htm">Dwellings</a> <a href="/psalms/37-18.htm">Endure</a> <a href="/psalms/49-9.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/psalms/48-13.htm">Generation</a> <a href="/psalms/45-17.htm">Generations</a> <a href="/job/21-32.htm">Graves</a> <a href="/psalms/49-3.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/job/36-20.htm">Homes</a> <a href="/psalms/45-15.htm">House</a> <a href="/psalms/45-8.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/job/41-13.htm">Inner</a> <a href="/psalms/5-9.htm">Inward</a> <a href="/nehemiah/10-30.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/psalms/16-4.htm">Names</a> <a href="/psalms/48-13.htm">Places</a> <a href="/psalms/46-4.htm">Resting-Place</a> <a href="/psalms/46-4.htm">Tabernacles</a> <a href="/psalms/49-6.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/psalms/48-9.htm">Thought</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-16.htm">Tombs</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/52-8.htm">Age</a> <a href="/psalms/72-17.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/psalms/76-6.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/psalms/49-14.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/psalms/83-12.htm">Dwelling-Places</a> <a href="/psalms/55-15.htm">Dwellings</a> <a href="/psalms/49-12.htm">Endure</a> <a href="/psalms/52-5.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/psalms/49-19.htm">Generation</a> <a href="/psalms/61-6.htm">Generations</a> <a href="/psalms/55-15.htm">Graves</a> <a href="/psalms/51-6.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/psalms/78-55.htm">Homes</a> <a href="/psalms/49-16.htm">House</a> <a href="/psalms/55-15.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/psalms/64-6.htm">Inner</a> <a href="/psalms/51-6.htm">Inward</a> <a href="/psalms/56-1.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/psalms/69-28.htm">Names</a> <a href="/psalms/50-2.htm">Places</a> <a href="/psalms/49-14.htm">Resting-Place</a> <a href="/psalms/78-28.htm">Tabernacles</a> <a href="/psalms/49-13.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/psalms/50-21.htm">Thought</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm">Tombs</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 49</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/49-1.htm">An earnest persuasion to build the faith of resurrection</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/49-16.htm">Worldly prosperity is not to be admired</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, burial practices were significant, with family tombs often serving as the final resting place. The concept of the grave as an "eternal home" underscores the permanence of death in the earthly sense. <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-7.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:7</a> speaks of the body returning to the earth, highlighting the temporal nature of life. Theologically, this phrase contrasts with the hope of eternal life found in the New Testament, where believers are promised a heavenly home (<a href="/john/14-2.htm">John 14:2</a>).<p><b>their dwellings for endless generations—</b><br>This part of the verse emphasizes the continuity of death across generations. In the cultural context of the ancient Near East, family lineage and inheritance were crucial. The idea that graves serve as "dwellings for endless generations" suggests a legacy that is ultimately tied to mortality. This can be contrasted with the biblical promise of an eternal inheritance for believers, as seen in <a href="/1_peter/1-4.htm">1 Peter 1:4</a>, which speaks of an inheritance that is imperishable and unfading.<p><b>even though their lands were their namesakes.</b><br>In ancient times, land ownership was a significant source of identity and status. The phrase "their lands were their namesakes" indicates that people often named lands after themselves, seeking to establish a lasting legacy. This practice is seen in Genesis, where cities and places are named after individuals (e.g., <a href="/genesis/4-17.htm">Genesis 4:17</a>). However, the psalmist points out the futility of such endeavors, as earthly possessions cannot prevent the inevitability of death. This echoes Jesus' teaching in <a href="/matthew/6-19.htm">Matthew 6:19-21</a>, where He advises storing up treasures in heaven rather than on earth.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_wealthy.htm">The Wealthy</a></b><br>The psalm addresses those who trust in their wealth and boast of their riches, highlighting their ultimate fate.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/g/graves.htm">Graves</a></b><br>Symbolic of the final resting place and the futility of earthly wealth, as it becomes the eternal home for all, regardless of status.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/l/lands.htm">Lands</a></b><br>Represents the earthly possessions and achievements that people often take pride in, yet cannot take with them beyond death.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_illusion_of_permanence.htm">The Illusion of Permanence</a></b><br>Earthly wealth and possessions can create a false sense of security and permanence. Believers are reminded to focus on eternal treasures.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_mortality.htm">The Reality of Mortality</a></b><br>Death is the great equalizer, reminding us that our true home is not in this world. We should live with an eternal perspective.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_pride.htm">The Danger of Pride</a></b><br>Naming lands after oneself or taking pride in possessions can lead to a misplaced identity. Our identity should be rooted in Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/e/eternal_perspective.htm">Eternal Perspective</a></b><br>Christians are called to invest in what lasts beyond this life, such as relationships, character, and spiritual growth.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/stewardship_over_ownership.htm">Stewardship Over Ownership</a></b><br>Recognize that all we have is entrusted to us by God, and we are to use it for His glory and purposes.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_psalm_49.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Psalm 49</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_sheol_in_psalm_49_inconsistent.htm">Does the emphasis on Sheol in Psalm 49 conflict with other biblical descriptions of the afterlife, creating internal inconsistencies?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_psalm_49_12_contradict_soul_immortality.htm">Psalm 49:12 likens humans to animals in their mortality--does this contradict the doctrine of an immortal soul seen elsewhere in Scripture?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_sheol_and_abaddon_align_today.htm">Proverbs 15:11: How do ancient concepts of Sheol and Abaddon align with modern historical or archaeological findings on the afterlife?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_send_servants_and_son_if_rejected.htm">Mark 12:1-9: Why would an all-knowing God repeatedly send servants and His own Son if He knew they would be rejected and killed?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/49.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) <span class= "bld">Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever.</span>--These eleven words represent three in the Hebrew, and, as the text stands, give its sense, which is intelligible and consistent:<p>"They believe their houses will last for ever,<p>Their dwelling places from generation to generation;<p>They call the lands by their own names."<p>The reading followed by the LXX., Chaldee, and Syriac, <span class= "ital">kibram </span>for <span class= "ital">kirbam </span>gives a different thought--<p>"Their graves are their homes,<p>Their dwelling places for ever."<p>(Comp. "his long home," <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-5.htm" title="Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:">Ecclesiastes 12:5</a>.)<p>The last clause, which literally runs, <span class= "ital">they call in their names upon lands, </span>is by some explained (see <a href="/isaiah/44-5.htm" title="One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.">Isaiah 44:5</a>) to mean, "they are celebrated in their lands," which suits the text followed by the LXX. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/49.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations</span>. Still, though they know this, the rich and worldly have an idea - an "inward thought" - which they cherish, that they can m a certain sense escape death by founding families and leaving to their children substantial houses, which will keep up the family reputation, and accumulating landed estates, to which they may affix their name, so keeping their memories alive to future ages. <span class="cmt_word">They call their lands after their own names</span> (see <a href="/genesis/10-2.htm">Genesis 10:2, 4, 6, 22, 23, 29</a>, etc.; and compare the Greek traditions with respect to Hellen, Ion, Achaeus, Pelops, Cadmus, etc.). To call cities after their own names, or the names of their sons, was a still commoner practice of great men in the olden times (<a href="/genesis/4-17.htm">Genesis 4:17</a>; <a href="/genesis/11-31.htm">Genesis 11:31</a>; <a href="/exodus/1-11.htm">Exodus 1:11</a>; 'Records of the Past,' vol. 1. p. 14; vol. 3. pp. 45, 92, 112; vol. 7. pp. 32, 39, etc.). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/49-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Their graves</span><br /><span class="heb">קִרְבָּ֤ם</span> <span class="translit">(qir·bām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7130.htm">Strong's 7130: </a> </span><span class="str2">The nearest part, the center</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are their eternal</span><br /><span class="heb">לְֽעוֹלָ֗ם</span> <span class="translit">(lə·‘ō·w·lām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5769.htm">Strong's 5769: </a> </span><span class="str2">Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always</span><br /><br /><span class="word">homes—</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּתֵּ֨ימוֹ ׀</span> <span class="translit">(bāt·tê·mōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their dwellings</span><br /><span class="heb">מִ֭שְׁכְּנֹתָם</span> <span class="translit">(miš·kə·nō·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4908.htm">Strong's 4908: </a> </span><span class="str2">A residence, the Tabernacle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for endless generations—</span><br /><span class="heb">לְדֹ֣ר</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḏōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1755.htm">Strong's 1755: </a> </span><span class="str2">A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">even though</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲלֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·lê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[their] lands</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲדָמֽוֹת׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḏā·mō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_127.htm">Strong's 127: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ground, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">were their namesakes.</span><br /><span class="heb">קָֽרְא֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(qā·rə·’ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7121.htm">Strong's 7121: </a> </span><span class="str2">To call, proclaim, read</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/49-11.htm">Psalm 49:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/49-11.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 49:11 Their inward thought is that their houses (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/49-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 49:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 49:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/49-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 49:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 49:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>