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 God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He summons the heavens above, and 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 to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Gather my saints together unto me; those that 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 against you: I am God, even 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 or your burnt offerings, to have been 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 your house, nor he goats out of your 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 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 the fullness thereof.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you: 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 unto God thanksgiving; and pay your vows unto 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 you, and you 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 unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your 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 have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Now consider this, all of you that 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.”
Whoso offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
