Psalms 50
1 A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof].
A Psalm of Asaph. God, God, the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
3 God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.
Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence; a fire devoureth before Him, and round about Him it stormeth mightily.
4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
He calleth to the heavens above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people:
5 Assemble you his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
'Gather My saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.'
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. (Pause)
And the heavens declare His righteousness; for God, He is judge. (Selah)
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to 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 will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me.
9 I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10 For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
12 If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.
Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High;
15 And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. (Pause)
And call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honour Me.'
16 But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?
But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?
17 Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee.
18 If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.
When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.
19 Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.
Thou hast let loose thy mouth for evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
21 These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, [but] I will reprove you, and set [your offences] before you.
These things hast thou done, and should I have kept silence? Thou hadst thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set the cause before thine eyes.
22 Now consider these things, you that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.
Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving honoureth Me; and to him that ordereth his way aright will I show the salvation of God.'
