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.

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 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

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

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

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 calls to the heavens from 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 My saints to Me, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.

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

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

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

7 Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against you, God—I [am] 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 do not reprove you for your sacrifices, Indeed, your burnt-offerings [Are] continually before Me.

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

9 I do not take a bullock from your house, [Or] male goats from 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, The livestock on the hills of oxen.

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

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 sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

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

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

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 praise; 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 affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Pause)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy 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 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 understand this, You who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

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

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!

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