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 — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto 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 cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.
5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Gather ye to Me My saints, 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] 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 speak, O Israel, and I 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 for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
10 for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.
For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle 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 fowl 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 tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
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 he-goats?
14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to 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 Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest 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 hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest 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 thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array 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 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 honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
