Psalms 50
1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
“A psalm of Assaph.” The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting.
2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth forth.
3 God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.
Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
“Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
And the heavens tell of his righteousness; for God is judge himself. (Selah)
7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for 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 for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
I will not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
For mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.
11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me.
12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;
15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee, — and so wilt thou glorify me.”
16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
But unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth?
17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.
21 These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
22 Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with none to deliver.
23 The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.
Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.
