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 Melody of Asaph. El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof:

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

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

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

Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

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

He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto 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.”

Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.

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

Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (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 adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: —

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

Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:

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

I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;

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

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

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

I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are 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 tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.

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

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

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

Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;

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

Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest 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, 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?

17 since you hate instruction and throw my words away?

Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, 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, then didst thou run with him, —And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;

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

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

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

Thou wouldst sit down—Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother’s son, wouldst thou expose a fault: —

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 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.

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!

Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be 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.”

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