{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 49","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":141,"description":"Psalm 49: The Wealth That Cannot RansomHere is the Psalter doing something unexpected: philosophy. \"Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: both low and high, rich and poor, together.\" The sons of Korah are calling a universal assembly — not for worship this time, but for wisdom. They have a dark saying to open upon the harp, and it concerns the oldest illusion in the human heart: that money can save you. \"None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever.\" No fortune is large enough to purchase a single day beyond the grave. The rich man builds houses he imagines will last forever, names his lands after himself as if ink on a deed could defeat death — and yet \"man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.\" The refrain is devastating in its simplicity. But tucked into the center of this meditation on mortality is a single line of breathtaking hope: \"But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me.\" What wealth cannot do, God can. The ransom the rich cannot pay, God pays. That is the dark saying opened at last into light.00:00 A Parable for All People01:00 The Futility of Riches02:00 God Will Redeem My Soul","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}