Psalms 50

1 A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

A PSALM OF ASAPH. The God of gods—YHWH—has spoken, And He calls to the earth From the rising of the sun to its going in.

2 Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

3 God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.

Our God comes, and is not silent, Fire devours before Him, And around Him it has been very tempestuous.

4 He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.

He calls to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to judge His people.

5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

Gather My saints to Me, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.

6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judging. (Selah)

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against you, God—I [am] your God.

8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, Indeed, your burnt-offerings [Are] continually before Me.

9 I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

I do not take a bullock from your house, [Or] male goats from your folds.

10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

For every beast of the forest [is] Mine, The livestock on the hills of oxen.

11 I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.

I have known every bird of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.

12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

If I am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.

13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of male goats?

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Sacrifice to God confession, And complete 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 Me in a day of adversity, I deliver you, and you honor Me.

16 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

And to the wicked God has said: What to you—to recount My statutes? That you lift up My covenant on your mouth?

17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Indeed, you have hated instruction, And cast My words behind you.

18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.

If you have seen a thief, Then you are pleased with him, And your portion [is] with adulterers.

19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

You have sent forth your mouth with evil, And your tongue joins deceit together,

20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:

You sit, you speak against your brother, You give slander against a son of your mother.

21 These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

These you did, and I kept silent, You have thought that I am like you, I reprove you, and set in array before your eyes.

22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Now understand this, You who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.

He who is sacrificing praise honors Me, As for him who makes a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!