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 Melody of Asaph. El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof:
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth.
3 Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:
4 He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.
5 Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!
Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. (Selah)
Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (Selah)
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: —
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;
Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:
I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;
For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;
11 I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:
I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me:
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.
13 Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?
Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;
Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify 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 lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?
Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;
18 When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, —And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;
19 Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;
20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
Thou wouldst sit down—Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother’s son, wouldst thou expose a fault: —
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, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set [thine offences] in order before thine eyes.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.
Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.
He that sacrificeth a thankoffering, will glorify me, —And will prepare a way by which I may show him the salvation of God.
