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.” The mighty God, Jehovah, speaketh, and calleth the earth, From the rising of the sun to its going down.

2 Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth 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 will not be silent; Before him is a devouring fire, And around him a raging tempest.

4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

He calleth to the heavens on high, And to the earth, while he judgeth his people:

5 Assemble you his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

“Gather together before me my godly ones, Who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. (Pause)

(And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, For it is God himself that is judge., Pause)

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! For I am God, thine own God.

8 I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.

I reprove thee not on account of thy sacrifices; For thy burnt-offerings are ever before me.

9 I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks.

I will take no bullock from thy house, Nor he-goat from thy folds;

10 For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

For all the beasts of the forest are mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are before me.

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 all that is therein.

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 to God thanksgiving, And pay thy vows to the Most High!

15 And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. (Pause)

Then call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me!”

16 But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?

And to the wicked God saith, “To what purpose dost thou talk of my statutes? And why hast thou my laws upon thy lips?—

17 Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].

Thou, who 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 seest a thief, thou art in friendship with him, And hast fellowship with adulterers.

19 Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.

Thou lettest loose thy mouth to 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 I kept silence; Hence thou thoughtest that I was altogether like thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thine eyes.

22 Now consider these things, you that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.

Mark this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and none deliver you!

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 praise honoreth me; And to him who hath regard to his ways Will I show salvation from God.”