Psalms 50
1 A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
A psalm of Asaph. The Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
From Zion, perfection of beauty, God’s glory shines forth.
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.
Our God comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest around him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
He summons the heavens above and the earth to judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him;
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. (Selah)
that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. (Selah)
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
‘Hear, O my people, and I will speak, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of thy folds.
Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;
10 For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on a thousand hills.
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 air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof.
Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Offer to God a thank-offering, pay the Most High your vows.
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Summon me in the day of distress, I will rescue you, so will you honour me.’
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
But to the wicked God says: ‘What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
while you yourself hate correction, and cast my words behind you?
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
When you see a thief, you run with them; with adulterers you keep company.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
You let your mouth loose for evil, your tongue contrives deceit.
20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
You shamefully speak of your kin, and slander your own mother’s son.
21 These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
And because I kept silence at this, you did take me for one like yourself. But I will convict you and show you plainly.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
‘Now you who forget God, mark this, lest I rend you, past hope of deliverance.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.
Those who bring a thank-offering honour me; but to those: who follows my way, I will show the salvation of God.’
