Psalms 50

1 A psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof].

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.

Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.

3 Our God comes and does not stay silent; a fire devours before him, and it is very stormy around him.

God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth so that he may judge his people:

He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 “Gather my faithful ones together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

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

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. (Pause)

7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak; I am God, your God.

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.

I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

9 I will take no bull out of your house, or male goats out of your folds.

I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.

10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

11 I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.

If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

15 Call on me in the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will glorify me.”

And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Pause)

16 But to the wicked God says, “What have you to do with declaring my statutes, that you have taken my covenant in your mouth,

But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

17 since you hate instruction and throw my words away?

Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind [thee].

18 When you see a thief, you agree with him; you participate with those who commit adultery.

If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.

19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue expresses deceit.

Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother's son.

21 You have done these things, but I have kept silent, so you thought that I was someone just like yourself. But I will reprove you and bring up, right before your eyes, all the things you have done.

These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee, [but] I will reprove thee, and set [thine offences] before thee.

22 Give this careful consideration, you who forget God, otherwise I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to come to help you!

Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.

23 The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving praises me, and to anyone who plans his path in the right way I will show God's salvation.”

The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.