Psalms 49:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Like sheep Which for a season are fed in large and sweet pastures, but at the owner's pleasure are led away to the slaughter, not knowing, nor considering whither they are going; they are laid in the grave As to their bodies, or placed in the invisible world, (as the word שׁאול, sheol, also signifies,) with respect to their souls. Death shall feed on them The first death shall consume their bodies in the grave, and the second death shall devour their souls. And the upright Good men, whom here they oppressed and abused at their pleasure; shall have dominion over them in the morning In the day of general judgment and the resurrection of the dead. For death being called sleep and the night, (see 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14; John 9:4,) that time is fitly termed the morning when men awake out of sleep, and enter upon an everlasting day. Dr. Horne's note here is just and striking: “The high and mighty ones of the earth, who cause people to fear, and nations to tremble around them, must one day crowd the grave, in multitude and impotence, though not in innocence, resembling sheep, driven and confined by the butcher in his house of slaughter. There death, that ravening wolf, shall feed sweetly on them, and devour his long expected prey in silence and darkness, until the glorious morning of the resurrection dawn, when the once oppressed and afflicted righteous, risen from the dead, and sitting with their Lord in judgment, shall have the dominion over their cruel and insulting enemies; whose faded beauty, withered strength, and departed glory shall display to men and angels the vanity of that confidence which is not placed in God.”