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 God of gods—YHWH—has spoken, And He calls to the earth From the rising of the sun to its going in.
2 Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth.
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
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 is not silent, Fire devours before Him, And around Him it has been very tempestuous.
4 He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.
He calls to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to judge His people.
5 Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.
Gather My saints to Me, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
6 Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (Selah)
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judging. (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 speak, O Israel, and I testify against you, God—I [am] your God.
8 Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, Indeed, your burnt-offerings [Are] continually before Me.
9 I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;
I do not take a bullock from your house, [Or] male goats from your 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, The livestock on the hills of oxen.
11 I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me:
I have known every bird of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.
If I am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.
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, And drink the blood of male goats?
14 Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;
Sacrifice to God confession, And complete 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.
And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver you, and you 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?
And to the wicked God has said: What to you—to recount My statutes? That you lift up My covenant on your mouth?
17 Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;
Indeed, you have hated 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;
If you have seen a thief, Then you are pleased with him, And your portion [is] with adulterers.
19 Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;
You have sent forth your mouth with evil, And your tongue joins deceit together,
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, you speak against your brother, You give slander against a son of your mother.
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 you did, and I kept silent, You have thought that I am like you, I reprove you, and set in array before your eyes.
22 Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —
Now understand this, You who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
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 is sacrificing praise honors Me, As for him who makes a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
