Psalms 50

1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, 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 shines out.

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

3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

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

He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

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

Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

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

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. (Selah)

7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

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

8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt offerings being continually before me.

9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

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

11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

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

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

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

13 Will I eat the meat 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. Pay your vows to the Most High.

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

15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honour me.”

And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.

16 But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,

17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?

18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

19 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.