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 Melody of Asaph. El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof:

2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.

Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth.

3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.

5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.

6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge.

Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (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 adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: —

8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:

9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,

I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;

10 for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.

For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;

11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are 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 tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.

13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?

14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;

15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest 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 lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth?

17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;

18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, —And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;

19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;

20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Thou wouldst sit down—Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother’s son, wouldst thou expose a fault: —

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 have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set [thine offences] 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:

Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear 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.”

He that sacrificeth a thankoffering, will glorify me, —And will prepare a way by which I may show him the salvation of God.