Psalms 50

1 A Melody of Asaph. El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof:

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

2 Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth.

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

3 Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

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

4 He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.

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

5 Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.

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

6 Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (Selah)

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

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: —

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

8 Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:

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

9 I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;

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

10 For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;

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

11 I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me:

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

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.

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

13 Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?

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

14 Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;

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

15 Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me.

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

16 But, to the lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy 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 Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;

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

18 If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, —And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;

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

19 Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;

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

20 Thou wouldst sit down—Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother’s son, wouldst thou expose a fault: —

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

21 These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set [thine offences] in order before thine 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 Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —

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

23 He that sacrificeth a thankoffering, will glorify me, —And will prepare a way by which I may show him 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.