What does Psalms Chapter 49 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

The Latin incipit is Deus deorum. The separate heading describes Christ's coming and preference of virtue and inward purity before victims' blood. In this psalm for Asaph the Lord spoke and called earth from sunrise to sunset, with beauty's loveliness out of Sion. God shall come manifestly without silence, with fire and mighty tempest, call heaven and earth to judge people and gather saints who set covenant before sacrifices. Heavens shall declare justice because God is judge.

The divine address calls Israel to hear, identifying their God. He will not reprove for sacrifices and burnt offerings always before Him. He will not take house calves or flock goats because wood beasts, hill cattle and oxen are His. He knows birds and has field beauty; if hungry He would not tell them, owning world's fullness. Questions ask about eating bull flesh or drinking goat blood. He commands sacrifice of praise, payment of vows and calling in trouble, promising delivery and their glorification of Him. The verse does not claim all physical offerings are unnecessary.

God asks a sinner why he declares justices and mouths covenant while hating discipline and casting words behind him. He ran with a thief, partook with adulterers, abounded in evil and deceitful tongue and spoke scandal against brother and mother's son. God's prior silence led to the unjust thought He was like the sinner, but He will reprove and set before the face. Those forgetting God are warned to understand lest He snatch away with no deliverer. Sacrifice of praise shall glorify Him as the way of showing salvation. The warning is conditional, not a narrated irreversible verdict already executed.