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 Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth.
From Zion, perfection of beauty, God’s glory 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 comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest 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 to judge his people.
5 Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.
Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him;
6 Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (Selah)
that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. (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, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
8 Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:
Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you 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;
Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;
10 For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;
for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine 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 air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.
Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
13 Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?
Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;
Offer to God a thank-offering, pay the Most High your vows.
15 Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me.
Summon me in the day of distress, I will rescue you, so will you honour 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 God says: ‘What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth
17 Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;
while you yourself hate correction, 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 run with them; with adulterers you keep company.
19 Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;
You let your mouth loose for evil, your tongue contrives 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 shamefully speak of your kin, and 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.
And because I kept silence at this, you did take me for one like yourself. But I will convict you and show you plainly.
22 Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —
‘Now you who forget God, mark this, lest I rend you, past hope of deliverance.
23 He that sacrificeth a thankoffering, will glorify me, —And will prepare a way by which I may show him the salvation of God.
Those who bring a thank-offering honour me; but to those: who follows my way, I will show the salvation of God.’
