Psalms 50
1 A Psalm. Of Asaph. God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
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,
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
3 Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
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.
4 He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
5 Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!
Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. (Selah)
And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:
I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;
For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
11 I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:
I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
13 Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?
Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,
But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
17 Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?
Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
18 When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
19 Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
21 These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
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.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.
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.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.
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.
