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 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 Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth.
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.
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 shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.
5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (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 will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: —
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:
9 I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;
10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;
11 I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me:
12 If I should be 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 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to 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 to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in 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 discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;
18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, —And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;
19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;
20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy 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 was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
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 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —
23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him 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.
