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.
A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.
4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge.
And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.
8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
10 for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.
For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I 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 praise, and pay your 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 tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor 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 sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your 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 you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.
22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
23 He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.
