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 One, God, Yahweh, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

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

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.

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 comes and does not stay silent; a fire devours before him, and it is very stormy around him.

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

He calls to the heavens above and to the earth so 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 faithful ones together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

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

The heavens will declare his righteousness, for God himself 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, my people, and I will speak; I am God, your God.

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

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.

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

I will take no bull out of your house, or male goats out of your 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 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 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 you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.

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

Will 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 the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your 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)

Call on me in the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will glorify me.”

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

But to the wicked God says, “What have you to do with declaring my statutes, that you have taken my covenant in your mouth,

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

since you hate instruction and throw my words away?

18 If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.

When you see a thief, you agree with him; you participate with those who commit adultery.

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

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue expresses deceit.

20 You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your 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.

You have done these things, but I have kept silent, so you thought that I was someone just like yourself. But I will reprove you and bring up, right before your eyes, all the things you have done.

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

Give this careful consideration, you who forget God, otherwise I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to come to help you!

23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.

The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving praises me, and to anyone who plans his path in the right way I will show God's salvation.”