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].
The salm of Asaph. God, the Lord of goddis, spak; and clepide the erthe,
2 Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.
fro the risynge of the sunne til to the goyng doun. The schap of his fairnesse fro Syon,
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.
God schal come opynli; oure God, and he schal not be stille. Fier schal brenne an hiye in his siyt; and a strong tempest in his cumpas.
4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
He clepide heuene aboue; and the erthe, to deme his puple.
5 Assemble you his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
Gadere ye to hym hise seyntis; that ordeynen his testament aboue sacrifices.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. (Pause)
`And heuenes schulen schewe his riytfulnesse; for God is the iuge.
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God.
Mi puple, here thou, and Y schal speke to Israel; and Y schal witnesse to thee, Y am God, thi God.
8 I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.
I schal not repreue thee in thi sacrifices; and thi brent sacrifices ben euere bifor me.
9 I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks.
I schal not take calues of thin hows; nethir geet buckis of thi flockis.
10 For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
For alle the wyelde beestis of wodis ben myne; werk beestis, and oxis in hillis.
11 I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
I haue knowe alle the volatils of heuene; and the fairnesse of the feeld is with me.
12 If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
If Y schal be hungry, Y schal not seie to thee; for the world and the fulnesse therof is myn.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Whether Y schal eete the fleischis of boolis? ethir schal Y drynke the blood of geet buckis?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.
Offre thou to God the sacrifice of heriyng; and yelde thin avowis to the hiyeste God.
15 And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. (Pause)
And inwardli clepe thou me in the dai of tribulacioun; and Y schal delyuere thee, and thou schalt onoure me.
16 But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?
But God seide to the synnere, Whi tellist thou out my riytfulnessis; and takist my testament bi thi mouth?
17 Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].
Sotheli thou hatidist lore; and hast cast awey my wordis bihynde.
18 If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.
If thou siyest a theef, thou `hast runne with hym; and thou settidist thi part with avowtreris.
19 Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.
Thi mouth was plenteuouse of malice; and thi tunge medlide togidere giles.
20 You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.
Thou sittynge spakist ayens thi brother, and thou settidist sclaundir ayens the sone of thi modir;
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.
thou didist these thingis, and Y was stille. Thou gessidist wickidli, that Y schal be lijk thee; Y schal repreue thee, and Y schal sette ayens thi face.
22 Now consider these things, you that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.
Ye that foryeten God, vndurstonde these thingis; lest sum tyme he rauysche, and noon be that schal delyuere.
23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.
The sacrifice of heriyng schal onoure me; and there is the weie, where ynne Y schal schewe to hym the helthe of God.
