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 of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,

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

from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.

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

God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.

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

He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.

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

Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.

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

And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.

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

Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.

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

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.

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

I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.

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

For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.

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

I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.

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 would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

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

Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I 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 your 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 tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor 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 sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?

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

Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.

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

If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.

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

Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.

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

Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your 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 you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.

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

Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.

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 honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.