Psalms 50
1 A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.
A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof].
2 Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.
Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.
3 Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.
God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.
4 Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.
He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.
Assemble you his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
6 And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. (Selah)
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. (Pause)
7 Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.
Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God.
8 I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.
9 I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.
I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks.
10 For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.
For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
11 I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.
I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
12 If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.
If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
13 Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. (Pause)
16 But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,
But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?
Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].
18 For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.
If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.
19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.
20 Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.
You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.
These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, [but] I will reprove you, and set [your offenses] before you.
22 Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.
Now consider these things, you that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.
23 He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.
The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.
