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 of Assaph.” The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth forth.
3 Our God comes and does not stay silent; a fire devours before him, and it is very stormy around him.
Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.
4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth so that he may judge his people:
He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.
5 “Gather my faithful ones together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
“Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 The heavens will declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)
And the heavens tell of his righteousness; for God is judge himself. (Selah)
7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak; I am God, your God.
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.
Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
9 I will take no bull out of your house, or male goats out of your folds.
I will not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
For mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.
If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;
15 Call on me in the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will glorify me.”
And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee, — and so wilt thou glorify me.”
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 unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth?
17 since you hate instruction and throw my words away?
And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 When you see a thief, you agree with him; you participate with those who commit adultery.
When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.
19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue expresses deceit.
Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.
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 hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
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!
Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with none to deliver.
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.”
Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.
