Psalms 50

1 The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down 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, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.

3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous 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 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. (Selah)

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. (Pause)

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.

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

8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

9 I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.

I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.

10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High:

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Pause)

16 But to the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?

But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

17 Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.

Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind [thee].

18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.

19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother's son.

21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.

These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee, [but] I will reprove thee, and set [thine offences] before thee.

22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.

23 Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.

The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.