< 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 God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.
2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
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 is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. (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 speak, O Israel, and I 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 for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [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 am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to 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 Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest 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 hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest 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 thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array 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.
Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
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.
He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

< Psalms 50 >