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 Assaph.” The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting.

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

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth forth.

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

Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.

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

He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.

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

“Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

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

And the heavens tell of 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 against thee: God, thy God, am I.

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

Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

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

I will not take a 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 mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.

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

I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields 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 were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.

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

Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?

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

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;

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

And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee, — and so wilt thou 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 unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth?

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

And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest 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 seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.

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

Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

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

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.

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 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.”

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

Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with 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!

Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.