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 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 Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

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.

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

4 Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.

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

5 Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.

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

6 And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. (Selah)

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

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

8 I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.

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

9 I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.

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

10 For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.

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

11 I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

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

12 If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

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

13 Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

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

14 Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,

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

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,

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 hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?

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

19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

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

20 Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.

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

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 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 Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.

Now understand this, You who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, 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.

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