Psalms 50
1 God, the all-powerful one, speaks; he summons all people, from the east to the west.
A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.
2 His glory shines from Zion [Hill in Jerusalem], an extremely beautiful city.
Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.
3 Our God comes to us, and he is not silent. A great fire is in front of him, and a storm is around him.
Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.
4 He comes to judge his people. He shouts to the [angels in] heaven and to [the people on] the earth.
Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.
5 He says, “Summon those who faithfully [worship] me, those who made an agreement with me by offering sacrifices to me.”
Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.
6 The [angels in] heaven declare, “God is righteous, and he is the supreme judge.”
And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. (Selah)
7 God says, “My people, listen! You Israeli people, listen, as I, your God, say what you have done that is wrong.
Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.
8 I am not rebuking you for making sacrifices to me, for the offerings that you completely burn [on the altar].
I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
9 But I do not really need [you to sacrifice] the bulls from your barns and the goats from your pens,
I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.
10 because all the animals in the forest belong to me, [and all] the cattle on 1,000 hills also belong to me.
For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.
11 I [own and] know all the birds and all [the creatures] that move around in the fields.
I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.
12 [So], if I were hungry, I would not tell you [to bring me some food], because everything in the world belongs to me!
If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.
13 I do not eat the flesh of the bulls [that you sacrifice], and I do not drink the blood of the goats [that you offer to me].
Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?
14 The sacrifice [that I really want is that] you thank me and do all that you have promised to do.
Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,
15 And pray to me when you have troubles. [If you do that], I will rescue you, and [then] you will praise me.
And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
16 But I say this to the wicked people: (Why do you/It does not benefit you at all to) [RHQ] recite my commandments or talk about the agreement that I made with you,
But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,
17 because you have refused to allow me to discipline you, and you have rejected what I told you to do.
Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?
18 Every time that you see a thief, you become his friend, and you spend [much] time with those who commit adultery.
For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.
19 You are [always] talking [MTY] about doing wicked things, and you are [always] to deceive people.
Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
20 You are always accusing members of your own family [of doing wrong], and slandering them.
Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.
21 You did [all] those things, and I did not say anything to you, [so] you thought that I was [a sinner] just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you, right in front of you.
These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.
22 So, all you who have ignored me, pay attention to this, because if you do not, I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to rescue you.
Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.
23 The sacrifice that [truly] honors me is to thank me [for what I have done]; and I will save those who always do the things that I want them to.”
He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.
