Tharsis.

47:9. As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of
hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

47:10. We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

47:11. According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise kunto the
ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.

47:12. Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad;
because of thy judgments, O Lord.

47:13. Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers.

47:14. Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that
ye may relate it in another generation.

47:15. For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he
shall rule us for evermore.

Psalms Chapter 48

Audite haec, omnes gentes.

The folly of worldlings, who live on in sin, without thinking of death
or hell.

48:1. Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.

48:2. Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of
the world.

48:3. All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and
poor together.

48:4. My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart
understanding.

48:5. I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on
the psaltery.

48:6. Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall
encompass me.

The iniquity of my heel... That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways: or
the iniquity of my pride, with which as with the heel, I have spurned
and kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel, that is, the
iniquity in which I shall be found in death. The meaning of this verse
is, Why should I now indulge those passions and sinful affections, or
commit now those sins, which will cause me so much fear and anguish in
the evil day; when the sorrows of death shall compass me, and the perils
of hell shall find me?

48:7. They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude
of their riches,

They that trust, etc... As much as to say, let them fear that trust in
their strength or riches: for they have great reason to fear: seeing no
brother or other man, how much a friend soever, can by any price or
labour rescue them from death.

48:8. No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to
God his ransom,

48:9. Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for
ever,

And shall labour for ever, etc... This seems to be a continuation of the
foregoing sen