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 Assaph.” The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting.
2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth forth.
3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.
4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.
5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
“Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge.
And the heavens tell of 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 thee: God, thy God, am I.
8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
I will not take a 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 mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.
11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me.
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 say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?
14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;
15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee, — and so wilt thou 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 saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth?
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.
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 hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with 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 offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.
