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 Asaph.” The mighty God, Jehovah, speaketh, and calleth the earth, From the rising of the sun to its going down.
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 cometh, and will not be silent; Before him is a devouring fire, And around him a raging tempest.
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
He calleth to the heavens on high, And to the earth, while he judgeth his people:
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
“Gather together before me my godly ones, Who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
(And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, For it is God himself that is judge., Pause)
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! For I am God, thine own God.
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
I reprove thee not on account of thy sacrifices; For thy burnt-offerings are ever before me.
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
I will take no bullock from thy house, Nor he-goat from thy folds;
10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
For all the beasts of the forest are mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
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 would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and all that is therein.
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I 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 tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
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 discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through 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 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
Thou, who 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, thou art in friendship with him, And hast fellowship with adulterers.
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
Thou lettest loose thy mouth to 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; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
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; Hence thou thoughtest that I was altogether like thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thine 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.
Mark this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and none deliver you!
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 praise honoreth me; And to him who hath regard to his ways Will I show salvation from God.”
