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:

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.

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

From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines 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 approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

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

He summons the heavens above, and 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 to Me My saints, who 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 proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge.

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 against you: I am God, your God.

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

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

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

I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,

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— the cattle on a thousand hills.

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

I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures 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 you, 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?

Do 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;

Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

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

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor 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?

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

17 Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

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

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

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

You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

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

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your 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.

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

22 Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

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

He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”