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 God, Jehovah, speaketh, and calleth the earth, From the rising of the sun to its going down.

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

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth 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 cometh, and will not be silent; Before him is a devouring fire, And around him a raging tempest.

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

He calleth to the heavens on high, And to the earth, while he judgeth his people:

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

“Gather together before me my godly ones, 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 it is God himself that is judge., Pause)

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 thee! For I am God, thine own God.

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

I reprove thee not on account of thy sacrifices; For thy 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 will take no bullock from thy house, Nor he-goat from thy folds;

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

For all the beasts of the forest are mine, And 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 all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are before me.

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 all that is therein.

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;

Offer to God 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.

Then call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt 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?

And to the wicked God saith, “To what purpose dost thou talk of my statutes? And why hast thou my laws upon thy lips?—

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

Thou, who hatest instruction And castest 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 seest a thief, thou art in friendship with him, And hast fellowship with adulterers.

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

Thou lettest loose thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth 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; Thou slanderest 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 hast thou done, and I kept silence; Hence thou thoughtest that I was altogether like thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set it 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: —

Mark this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and none deliver 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.

Whoso offereth praise honoreth me; And to him who hath regard to his ways Will I show salvation from God.”