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 by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

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

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

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 does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

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

He calls to the heavens above, to 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 my holy ones together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

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

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)

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

“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, 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 don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. 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 have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

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

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock 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. The wild animals 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 all that is in it.

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

Will I eat the meat 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 the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay 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 on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will 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 do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

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

since you hate instruction, and throw 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 saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

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

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames 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 speak against 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 that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

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 into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

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

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”