Psalms 50

1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.

4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. (Selah)

7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds.

10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fullness thereof.

13 Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:

15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

16 But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

19 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.

21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.

23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] deportment [aright] will I show the salvation of God.