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 Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
From Zion, perfection of beauty, God’s glory shines 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 comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest around him.
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
He summons the heavens above and the earth to judge his people.
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him;
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. (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, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;
10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine 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 air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, 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 a thank-offering, pay the Most High your vows.
15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
Summon me in the day of distress, I will rescue you, so will you honour 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 to the wicked God says: ‘What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth
17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
while you yourself hate correction, and cast my words behind you?
18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
When you see a thief, you run with them; with adulterers you keep company.
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
You let your mouth loose for evil, your tongue contrives deceit.
20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
You shamefully speak of your kin, and slander your 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.
And because I kept silence at this, you did take me for one like yourself. But I will convict you and show you plainly.
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.
‘Now you who forget God, mark this, lest I rend you, past hope of deliverance.
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.
Those who bring a thank-offering honour me; but to those: who follows my way, I will show the salvation of God.’
