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 Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.

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

Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.

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 shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.

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

Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.

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

Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.

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

And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. (Selah)

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

Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.

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

I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene 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 bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.

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

For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.

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

I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

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

If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

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

Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

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

Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,

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

And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie 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 vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,

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

Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?

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

For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.

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

Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest 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 sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.

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 hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.

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

Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer 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 that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.