Psalms 50
1 “A psalm of Assaph.” The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting.
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 shineth forth.
Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.
3 Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.
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 will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.
He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 “Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
Assemble you his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
6 And the heavens tell of 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 thee: God, thy God, am I.
Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God.
8 Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are 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 not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks.
10 For mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.
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: whatever moveth on the fields is with me.
I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.
If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
13 Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee, — and so wilt thou glorify me.”
And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. (Pause)
16 But unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth?
But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?
17 And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].
18 When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.
If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.
19 Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.
You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
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 offences] before you.
22 Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with none to deliver.
Now consider these things, you that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.
23 Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.
The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.
