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 Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
From Zion, perfection of beauty, God’s glory shines forth.
3 Our God comes, and is not silent, Fire devours before Him, And around Him it has been very tempestuous.
Our God comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest around him.
4 He calls to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to judge His people.
He summons the heavens above and the earth to judge his people.
5 Gather My saints to Me, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him;
6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judging. (Selah)
that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. (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, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, Indeed, your burnt-offerings [Are] continually before Me.
Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me
9 I do not take a bullock from your house, [Or] male goats from your folds.
Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;
10 For every beast of the forest [is] Mine, The livestock on the hills of oxen.
for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on 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 air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
12 If I am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.
Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of male goats?
Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Sacrifice to God confession, And complete your vows to the Most High.
Offer to God a thank-offering, pay the Most High your vows.
15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver you, and you honor Me.
Summon me in the day of distress, I will rescue you, so will you honour 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 God says: ‘What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth
17 Indeed, you have hated instruction, And cast My words behind you.
while you yourself hate correction, and cast my words behind you?
18 If you have seen a thief, Then you are pleased with him, And your portion [is] with adulterers.
When you see a thief, you run with them; with adulterers you keep company.
19 You have sent forth your mouth with evil, And your tongue joins deceit together,
You let your mouth loose for evil, your tongue contrives deceit.
20 You sit, you speak against your brother, You give slander against a son of your mother.
You shamefully speak of your kin, and slander your 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.
And because I kept silence at this, you did take me for one like yourself. But I will convict you and show you plainly.
22 Now understand this, You who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
‘Now you who forget God, mark this, lest I rend you, past hope of deliverance.
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!
Those who bring a thank-offering honour me; but to those: who follows my way, I will show the salvation of God.’
