Psalms 50
1 A Psalm of Asaph. God, God, the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence; a fire devoureth before Him, and round about Him it stormeth mightily.
Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
4 He calleth to the heavens above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people:
He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.
5 'Gather My saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.'
Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
6 And the heavens declare His righteousness; for God, He is judge. (Selah)
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. (Selah)
7 'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.
Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me.
Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.
If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?
14 Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High;
Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.
15 And call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honour Me.'
And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
16 But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?
And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee.
Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.
If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
19 Thou hast let loose thy mouth for evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
21 These things hast thou done, and should I have kept silence? Thou hadst thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set the cause before thine eyes.
These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
23 Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving honoureth Me; and to him that ordereth his way aright will I show the salvation of God.'
He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
