Psalms 50

1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.

A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun.

2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

3 Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.

4 He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.

Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. (Selah)

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

7 Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

8 Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

9 I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.

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

10 For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.

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

11 I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine.

12 If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.

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

13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?

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

14 Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.

Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:

15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

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

16 And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

17 Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

18 If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

19 Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

20 Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.

21 These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

22 Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.

23 He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] deportment [aright] will I show the salvation of God.