Psalms 50
1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.
4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. (Selah)
7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, even thy God.
8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt offerings being continually before me.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10 for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
I know all the birds 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 the fullness thereof.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most High.
15 Call upon 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 shall glorify me.
16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
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,
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.
21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
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.
22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
23 He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.
