< Psalms 50 >

1 The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
3 Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.
Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
4 He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.
5 Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. (Selah)
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. (Selah)
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, even thy God.
Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt offerings being continually before me.
Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most High.
Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.
And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
16 But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,
And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
17 since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?
Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
18 When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
19 Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.
Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
20 Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
21 These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.
22 Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.
He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

< Psalms 50 >