Psalms 50

1 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].

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.

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

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

3 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21 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.

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.

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

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

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

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