Psalm 49:11 Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves.

English Standard Version
Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.

New American Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Their graves are their eternal homes, their homes from generation to generation, though they have named estates after themselves.

International Standard Version
Their inner thoughts are on their homes forever; their dwellings from generation to generation. They even name their lands after themselves.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

Darby Bible Translation
Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

Young's Literal Translation
Their heart is: Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

Cross References

Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Numbers 32:42
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob to the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, to this day.

Job 8:15
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

Psalm 10:6
He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Psalm 64:6
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

49:6-14 Here is a description of the spirit and way of worldly people. A man may have wealth, and may have his heart enlarged in love, thankfulness, and obedience, and may do good with it. Therefore it is not men's having riches that proves them to be worldly, but their setting their hearts upon them as the best things. Worldly men have only some floating thoughts of the things of God, while their fixed thoughts, their inward thoughts, are about the world; that lies nearest the heart. But with all their wealth they cannot save the life of the dearest friend they have. This looks further, to the eternal redemption to be wrought out by the Messiah. The redemption of the soul shall cost very dear; but, being once wrought, it shall never need to be repeated. And he, the Redeemer, shall rise again before he sees corruption, and then shall live for evermore, Re 1:18. This likewise shows the folly of worldly people, who sell their souls for that which will never buy them. With all their wealth they cannot secure themselves from the stroke of death. Yet one generation after another applaud their maxims; and the character of a fool, as drawn by heavenly Wisdom itself, Lu 12:16-21, continues to be followed even among professed Christians. Death will ask the proud sinner, Where is thy wealth, thy pomp? And in the morning of the resurrection, when all that sleep in the dust shall awake, the upright shall be advanced to the highest honour, when the wicked shall be filled with everlasting shame and contempt, Da 12:2. Let us now judge of things as they will appear in that day. The beauty of holiness is that alone which the grave cannot touch, or damage.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. Still infatuated and flattered with hopes of perpetuity, they call their lands, or "celebrate their names on account of (their) lands."