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 — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto 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 cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
4 He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.
He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.
5 Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.
Gather ye to Me My saints, 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] 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, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.
8 Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:
Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
9 I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;
I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
10 For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;
For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle 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 fowl 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 tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
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 he-goats?
14 Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;
Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.
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 thee, and thou honourest 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 hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
17 Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;
Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
18 If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, —And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;
If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
19 Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;
Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth 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: —
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
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 thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.
22 Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —
Understand this, I pray you, Ye 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 honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
