Psalms 50

1 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.

The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

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

Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

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

He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

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

Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

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

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

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

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

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

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt offerings being continually before me.

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

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

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

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

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

I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

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

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

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

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

14 Sacrifice to God confession, And complete your vows to the Most High.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most High.

15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver you, and you honor Me.

And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.

16 And to the wicked God has said: What to you—to recount My statutes? That you lift up My covenant on your mouth?

But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,

17 Indeed, you have hated instruction, And cast My words behind you.

since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?

18 If you have seen a thief, Then you are pleased with him, And your portion [is] with adulterers.

When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

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

Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.

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

Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

21 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.

These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

22 Now understand this, You who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

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

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.