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—YHWH—has spoken, And He calls to the earth From the rising of the sun to its going in.
2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Our God comes, and is not silent, Fire devours before Him, And around Him it has been very tempestuous.
4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
He calls to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to judge His people.
5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Gather My saints to Me, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge.
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judging. (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 speak, O Israel, and I testify against you, God—I [am] your God.
8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, Indeed, your burnt-offerings [Are] continually before Me.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
I do not take a bullock from your house, [Or] male goats from 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, The livestock on the hills of oxen.
11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
I have known every bird of the mountains, And the wild beast 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 am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of male goats?
14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Sacrifice to God confession, And complete 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 Me in a day of adversity, I deliver you, and you 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?
And to the wicked God has said: What to you—to recount My statutes? That you lift up My covenant on your mouth?
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Indeed, you have hated instruction, And cast My words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
If you have seen a thief, Then you are pleased with him, And your portion [is] with adulterers.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
You have sent forth your mouth with evil, And your tongue joins deceit together,
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
You sit, you speak against your brother, You give slander against a son of your mother.
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 you did, and I kept silent, You have thought that I am like you, I reprove you, and set in array before your eyes.
22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Now understand this, You who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
23 He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
He who is sacrificing praise honors Me, As for him who makes a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
